![]() In fact, if you had the opportunity to annihilate in one single instant all the antimatter ever produced in the history of mankind, it wouldn’t release enough energy to boil a pot of tea! Although not a good source of energy, antimatter does have its applications for example it is routinely used in hospitals for imaging. But the problem is that there is hardly any antimatter available in the universe. The real excitement of antimatter research is that it has the potential to rewrite our assumptions about the nature and properties of space and timeĪntimatter sounds like a fantastic energy source: when the particles hit matter they obliterate each other instantly, releasing energy. People believed that producing these mysterious particles, thought to mirror those in the ‘real’ world, was opening the door to a sci-fi dream of space travel. When the first antimatter particles were created at CERN in the 1990s it generated huge excitement. Welsch, we’ll need to be both collaborative and interdisciplinary ![]() ![]() Do we need to reconsider general relativity? Have we really grasped fundamental particles? Why is there matter at all? Answers are tantalisingly close as antimatter research boldly goes towards physics’ final frontier – but to get there, says Professor Carsten P.
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