Hey Daniel, are you glad our universe has anti-matter?

Well, I'm definitely pro our universe. So I guess I'm not anti-anti-matter.

That means you're pro-matter. But I guess the question is, would you miss anti-matter if we didn't have it?

I mean, I like things the way they are, so if we lost anti-matter, the universe would be pretty different and maybe worse.

But what if it's better?

Or maybe it couldn't exist without anti-matter, and it would disappear in a puff of mathematical contradictions.

Okay, then I would be anti-anti-matter. I would not be pro-anti-matter.

I'm just saying it matters.

Hi, I'm Portia McCartunes and the creator of PhD Comics.

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist and a professor at UC Irvine, and I love all the kinds of matter out there.

The matter and the antimatter and the pro matter.

What about the M-matter? Not pro, not anti-matter. It's just kind of there.

You know, I will admit that there are some particles I think are exciting and other particles I'm like,

yeah, that's just a mess.

But your favorite kind of matter is chocolate matter?

Certainly better than vanilla matter.

Carp matter. But anyways, welcome to our podcast, Daniel and Jorge, explain the universe a production of I Heart Radio.

In which we dig deep into all kinds of matter out there that matters.

We talk about the things that make you up. We talk about the things that make nothing up.

And the things that seem to exist for which we do not yet understand.

The whole universe is like a jigsaw puzzle with lots of weirdly shaped pieces.

And our goal is to find all those pieces, fit them together, to tell the whole story of our universe.

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