What's Happening With Antimatter at CERN? Scientists Are Stumped Again

One of the authors of this paper was my lecturer for plasma physics. He showed us the results towards the end of the lecture, around 3 hours before they were sent off to the journals :)

INTERESTING NOTE: When cancer patients go in for a "PET scan," they are leveraging the power of antimatter to help determine which cells are growing out of control so doctors can know where the cancer is progressing...and how fast. PET = Positron Emmission Tomography. This use of antimatter technology is utterly fascinating to me. May such progress continue in the battle against cancer, that terrible disease that killed my beloved wife Sharon 5.5 years ago. Stay strong, all ye cancer patients and their caregivers!

I had heard about this paper already in an interview, but I didn't really understand that the weak force was different until this video so thanks

I don't pretend to understand half of what is said, but I really find your videos very interesting, I learn something new every time.

From looking at this setup, it's clear that it isn't like an atomic interferometer. It's designed to capture antimatter to take measurements. However, this setup looks like it can be run with regular matter too with the tops and bottoms set up to measure regular matter to see if the error ranges are similar. If they are, it would point to the method of measurement ( the hardware setup itself ) being a primary source of the range and would suggest moving towards an improved method of measuring.

This result was interesting. If we consider that the most mass of the proton is from the gluons, then we know that mass from energy (E=m*c²) falls "down". Then if the quarks themself would fall "up" we would see less than 1 G of gravity for the anti-hydrogen. The difference would be tiny, so a more precise experiment is needed to resolve this.

Angela Collier went over this, highly recommend hearing her physicist's take on the experiment.

I feel I do understand these concepts the way you explain them. I appreciate it.

I'd love to see some kind of collab between Astrum, PBS space time and SEA

I find all this extremely fascinating, even admitting that for many of my years I thought, "Antimatter was only something out of science fiction" I would love to hear a lot more on this subject

Love that you covered the actual experiment setup

I love how that experiment was done, nice walk trough! :D

Neat! That was a very thought provoking informative video! Thank you! 👍

Thank you . Because of this video I learnt in a concise manner the differences between matter and anti-matter in terms of their interactions via the 4 major forces. I am actually even more puzzled that the weak force shows any difference at all and about why we still have no explanation for the baryonic asymmetry. This leds me to ask if we really think there is really an asymmetry or if there is some other explanation. Overall the clarity of the presentation and its allocation of time to each point discussed. Rather than delve too deep into controversial points or over explain and complex point the video does a good job or touching upon every key point letting the viewer decide on how to digest and process the information. I greatly appreciate this Video for in content and presentation.

Wow I got to 2mins into this and I was just about to say goodbye as I thought I wouldn't be able to understand any of this but you have managed to capture my attention as you explain it so well. Thank you👍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks for the hard work!! Keep it coming!

Sweet. I would love to hear more discussion on this topic. Thanks for posting. God bless.

Amazing world of antimatter. Please continue to post about this subject and maybe the eccentric Paul Dirac

I genuinely enjoyed this video and would love to see more about antimatter!

I have a phd in astrophysics, some decades ago, but never realized that antimatter behaves differently under the weak force. So i learned something new at the fundamental level. Also, it never ceases to amaze me how clever and intricate the experiments are. So, a very nice, captivating and educational video thanks so much.