An antimatter road trip
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An antimatter road trip
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Summary
The universe—and everything inside it—shouldn’t exist. The big bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, and their mutual annihilation should have resulted in nothing more than a sprawling ball of energy. But, in fact, the universe is dominated by matter, while antimatter is vanishingly rare. To try to understand why, physicists have taken antimatter on a road trip—for the first time in history.
Guests and hosts:
- Sam Wikeley, The Economist’s science correspondent
- April Cridland of CERN’s antimatter factory
- Stefan Ulmer of HHU Düsseldorf and CERN’s BASE experiment
- Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor
Topics covered:
- Antimatter
- The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Particle physics
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