Fabiola Gianotti

From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

Italian Physicist

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

American Physicist

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Scientist

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

Antimatter is often featured in science fiction as an advanced form of energy.

Science Fiction

Antimatter destroys regular matter on contact, releasing energy in a process called annihilation.

Annihilation Reaction

Despite its name, antimatter isn't 'bad'; it's simply composed of antiparticles opposite to those of matter.

Not Negative

 And the Universe is obviously full of matter. No one knows why there is more matter than antimatter, which is why scientists are so interested in studying me." "So where do they find you anyway?" "Actually, I was made in that lab down there. They needed an accelerator to make my antiproton because it's so heavy,

If matter falls down,...

 which are kind of like antimatter. Whenever they hit other matter, they destroy it and obliterate it. Most physicists say that the accelerators we have now are not really powerful enough to create black holes and strangelets that we need to worry about, and they're probably right.

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 but a positive electric charge. But, apart from the opposite charges, both particles are identical and perfectly stable. And the same is true for their heavy cousins, the proton and the antiproton. Therefore, scientists are convinced that a world made of antimatter

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 Precision on a smaller scale lets us use energy more efficiently and unlocks new energy sources, like nuclear fusion, or even antimatter. And this increased energy lets us expand and build on a larger scale. A truly advanced civilization, then,

Is there a limit to...

 Measurements of weak interactions found that there are different kinds of neutrinos associated with the electron, muon, and tau. All these particles also have antimatter versions, which have the opposite charge but are otherwise identical.

What’s the smallest...

 ballistics interests me also physics is on the cutting edge of a new discovery if the scientists can judge figure out how to trap enough antimatter to actually generate energy then the we could change the world for it

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 And he predicted, based purely on mathematical insight, that there ought to be a second kind of matter, the opposite to normal matter, that literally annihilates when it comes in antimatter.

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 A friendly gluon there are an equal number of matter and antimatter particles. At the blow of a cosmic whistle, every particle of matter with a particle of antimatter to its immediate right

Can you solve the Big...

 as well as whether the particle is matter or antimatter. While the two are normally indistinguishable, their opposite charges enable them to be detected with the help of a magnet.

How cosmic rays help us...

 But isotopes, particles of electricity, antimatter, neutrinos,