Friday, July 5, 2019

CERN- antimatter

While a lot of the mechanics and physics of the machines at CERN went right over my head, it’s easy to see that it is an amazing place doing incredible research. The Higgs Boson is something I had vaguely heard of but hadn’t realized the importance of until I read about it at CERN. The most fascinating things that I learned about, however, were the ideas of antimatter and the mysteries surrounding why matter was favored after the Big Bang. I also had no idea that a substance called dark matter makes up so much of our universe, and that people at CERN are able to experiment with antimatter. The idea of antimatter seems to come straight out of science fiction and is really interesting to know it potentially holds the key to unlocking knowledge about our creation and the mysteries of now.


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  1. StuartJuly 5, 2019 at 12:41 PM

    The trap that they had on display for containing antimatter was surprising. I also thought that antimatter was studied theoretically only.

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