A University of Winnipeg professor and his team broke a Canadian record while taking what might just be a big step that gets scientists closer to understanding the universe’s makeup.

Jeff Martin’s research team recently broke the Canadian record — previously held by his same crew — for ultracold neutron production.

The process takes extremely hot and difficult-to-control neutrons — extremely small subatomic particles — out of an atom’s nucleus and cools them so they can be studied more precisely.

The breakthrough in the volume produced could lead to advanced knowledge about the Big Bang-created universe.

“Currently a big problem in physics is we don’t know why the universe has matter in it. We can’t explain that. It seems like it should have an equal amount of antimatter, but we don’t

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