At the
beginning of the Big Bang, matter and anti-matter were produced in
equal amounts. A small imbalance of 1E-9 in the matter to
anti-matter ratio at primordial times caused by the mysterious CP
violation would be enough to explain the evolution of the Universe
after 99.9999999% of the matter and anti-matter would have annihilated
to form photons, which we observed as the 2.7 K cosmic microwave background radiation today.