Inside CERN’s ‘antimatter factory’ creating antihydrogen - BBC News
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Published 2023-08-05
These allusive particles have fascinated physicists for decades.
And now the Antimatter Factory at CERN has succeeded in creating antihydrogen.
Researchers hope it could help answer one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: where did all the antimatter go?
This video is from Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme.
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All Comments (21)
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Fun fact from a guy with an MSc in theoretical physics: In the mathematics of field theories, the maths actually says that antimatter should have a _negative mass_. This has always been assumed to be a quirk of the mathematics rather than anything physical, but it really shows that does experiments such as alpha-g and AEGIS is really quite critical. I would be shocked, but not surprised, to learn that antimatter is Gravitationally repulsive to regular matter.
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When dining at an Italian restaurant, please DO NOT order the pasta and antipasta at the same time. The results could be cataclysmic.
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If you're feeling confused: Antimatter is 99.9...% lab-verified. As for Dark matter, it's mostly a game with calculations and more high-level 'fits-all'(almost) explanation - no direct evidence or reduction to simpler particles yet. Dark matter existence sparks more debates, making the science even more thrilling!
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that cable management needs work
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That lab truly looks like something evil genius would have... Awesome...
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You know, showing a graphic of a positron (positive electron) didn't do much good if you don't explain that electrons are normally a negative charge. Changing it from negative to positive is what makes it anti-matter. You may've wanted to mention that.
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Strange, didnt really tell us anything about how they allegedly made anti-matter, or how they know for sure it is anti-matter
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"What if anitmatter falls up?" sounded like such a Philomena Cunk question.
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intro music made me think i was watching “you wouldn’t steal a TV” piracy ad from 2000s🤣
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Maybe the universe bounces between an anti-universe and a regular universe, and the big bang was the intersection point?
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Steins;Gate has been opened. The organisation is on to us
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Great work 👏.
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After watching steins Gate... I know there's more than their telling
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what a maze of wires and tubing. it's amazing they can get the system to run. somebody has to troubleshoot all that jumbled up mess because you know something that complicated will be breaking down repeatedly.
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When your favorite Dan Brown novel is finally becoming a reality!
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Maybe the antimatter is just on the farthest outskirts of the universe, and it’s interaction with the inner matter is why the universe is ever expanding
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Hey, I've got a question, what does an anti-neutron look like? I have no idea. Phase differences? Positrons where electrons should be?
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When I see CERN my mind leads automatically back to the anime Steins;Gate which references CERN I didn't know CERN was real
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This is fascinating!
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Most 90's video intro I've ever seen, at first I was expecting it to be an anti-piracy ad lmao
