The Heart of the Antimatter
Curious Cases
BBC
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
"How do you make antimatter?' asks Scott Matheson, aged 21 from Utah.
The team takes charge of this question with a spin through the history of antimatter. Adam talks to physicist Frank Close, author of 'Antimatter', about its origins in the equations of Dirac to its manufacture in the first particle accelerator, the Bevatron.
Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen tells Hannah why physicists today are busy pondering the mystery of the missing antimatter. Anyone who discovers why the Universe is made of matter, rather than antimatter, is in line for the Nobel Prize.
Plus, neuroscientist Sophie Scott describes how antimatter has been put to good use down here on Earth to peer into people's brains.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | MUSIC |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Dr Adam Rutherford. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Dr Hannah Fry. |
| 0:13.4 | And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries. |
| 0:16.3 | And we are going to investigate them. |
| 0:18.3 | Using the power of... |
| 0:19.6 | Science! |
| 0:20.4 | Science! |
| 0:21.1 | Science! |
| 0:22.0 | I like it. |
| 0:23.9 | D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello! It's Physics Day! |
| 0:29.2 | And Science Fiction Day, because I'm not really going to physics. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm worth it not really getting to science fiction. |
| 0:35.2 | So, the universe is putting perfect balance. |
| 0:37.9 | Almost, like, matter and... |
| 0:41.8 | and T-matter. |
| 0:42.8 | Let's go with that, shall we? |
| 0:44.0 | On with the show. |
| 0:45.5 | MUSIC |
| 0:51.5 | There's life, the universe, and every tiny, tiny thing in today's curious case. |
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