Antimatter! : Season 3 Trailer

The Field Guide to Particle Physics https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics©2021 The Pasayten Institute cc by-sa-4.0The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: https://pdg.lbl.gov.The Pasayten Institute is on a mission to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers! Get in touch.Introducing Season 3 : Antimatter!I hope you enjoyed Season 2, and the bonus episodes on cosmic rays that followed shortly after. This is just a short note to let you know that we’re still hard at work on developing Season 3, and the Season 3 will be all about ANTIMATTER.We’ve mentioned antimatter in brief before, for example, how the positron and the electron can collide, annihilating each other to turn into a pair of photons. In seasons one and two, antimatter was used for taxonomy; it was used to organize the particles we know.  This season, we’re going to dig much deeper. We’ll explore what it means for a particle to have an antiparticle partner.Questions we’ll discuss include: Where does antimatter come from, and what’s with that name? Why is there so little of it in the universe? Does antimatter always annihilate matter? What does it mean to be your OWN antiparticle partner? Finally, what can we USE it for?We’ll finish season 3 with what we DON’T YET know about antimatter. Like just who, exactly, is the antiparticle partner of the neutrino.At the Pasayten Institute, antimatter fills our minds with wonder - and a little bit of terror. By the end of next season, we hope to fills yours with curiosity to explore more.We’re excited to share these ideas - and a few stories - with you!