World Science Festival — Season 1, Episode 8: Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
What happened to all of the universe's antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an experiment to find out? In this program, particle physicists reveal their hunt for a neutrino event so rare, it happens to a single atom at most once every 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years: far longer than the current age of the universe. If they find it, it could explain no less than the existence of our matter-filled universe.
About World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- E2Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
- E3A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- E4Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
- E5Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
- E6Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
- E7Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
- E9How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
- E10Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
- E11The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
- E12The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence