SCOUT· 47%52m·2026-10-05·ScienceAntimatter is Bananas!
In yet another mind-bending episode, we take on antimatter – What is it? How do you make it? And can you use it to power a spaceship? Dr Becky, Izzie and Dr Robert Massey (he’s back!) are joined by Professor Jeffrey Hangst from CERN in Switzerland, home of an antimatter factory. We also discover that every time you…
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“We’re definite going to need to know how many bananas it would take to boil a cup of tea. Question about using antimatter to make clean energy. If we could make enough to do it. Would it still just be a steam engine?”
“23:00 "Mum, where do energy babies come from?" "So…you know when a matter and antimatter particle really like each other…" 😁”
“Becky, my lovely astrophysics I came up with a banana's idea. what if all the matter we see in the universe was actually anti matter and we're just looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope so to speak. And the question we should…”
“Yeah but how can we tell that what we perceive to be a Antoquark is not the real quark . in a lot of fields of physics things are interchangeable like energy and mass. E + MC”
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