The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance. Sponsored by SoFi - Join SoFi Plus today and get more for your money! Visit https://sofi.com/veritasium If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter ▀▀▀ 0:00 The Problem Of Antimatter Storage 2:18 What is particle annihilation? 6:13 The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry 12:44 CPT Symmetry 16:28 The Wu Experiment 22:13 The Antimatter Factory 25:35 How To Make Antimatter 32:05 How do you store antimatter? 33:55 Creating Anti-Atoms 44:44 Does antimatter fall up or down? 50:18 The Portable Antimatter Trap 53:34 Antimatter Bombs ▀▀▀ Antimatter Simulator: To save our servers try downloading it first here - https://ve42.co/TotalAnnihilatorDWNLD But you can also run it on our website - https://ve42.co/TotalAnnihilator Happy Annihilating! ▀▀▀ A sincere thank you to those who helped us understand understand and fact check different parts of this topic -- Prof. David I Kaiser, Prof, Chris Parkes, Prof. Matt Strassler, Prof. Yuval Grossman, Prof. Stephen Barr. Another huge thank you to those at CERN who showed us the antimatter facility and aided this video -- Dr. Ruggero Caravita, Prof. Patrice Pérez, Prof. Stefan Ulmer. To Dr. Piotr Traczyk from CERN - Thank you for giving us access to the 3D models used throughout this documentary and your expertise. ▀▀▀ References: https://ve42.co/AntimatterRefs ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, André Powell, Anton Ragin, armedtoe, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Blake Byers, Bruce, Charles Ian Norman Venn, Chris Brewer, Daniel Martins, Data Don, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, David Tseng, EJ Alexandra, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, gpoly, Hayden Christensen, Hong Thai Le, Ibby Hadeed, Jeromy Johnson, Jesse Brandsoy, Jose Garcia Soria, Juan Benet, Kelcey Steele, KeyWestr, Kyi, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Mark Heising, Martin Paull, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Parsee Health, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Robson, Sam Lutfi, Shalva Bukia, Sinan Taifour, Tj Steyn, Ubiquity Ventures, Vahe Andonians, William, wolfee ▀▀▀ Writers: Lily Shepherd, Casper Mebius & Derek Muller Producers and Directors: Lily Shepherd & Casper Mebius Presenter: Casper Mebius Editors: Spencer Wright, Jack Saxon, Peter Nelson and Trenton Oliver Animators: Emma Wright, Fabio Albertelli, Andrew Neet, Alex Drakoulis & Damonkos Jozsa Illustrators: Jakub Misiek & Maria Gusakovich Additional Writing: Sophia Rose Assistant Editor & Sound Designer: James Stuart Researchers: Sophia Rose, Gabe Strong, Naomi Dinmore, Darius Garewal & Callum Cuttle Simulations: Sophia Rose and Jakub Misiek Camera Operators: Jonathan Moy de Vitry, Lily Shepherd, Naomi Dinmore & Casper Mebius Thumbnail Designers: Abdallah Ranah, Ren Hurley & Ben Powell Production Team: Jess Bishop-Laggett, Matthew Cavanagh, Anna Milkovik, Katy Southwood & Josh Pitt Executive Producers: Derek Muller, Casper Mebius & Gregor Cavlovic Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images & Storyblocks Music from Epidemic Sound
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Crazy huh, what if we were the “Anti” universe and that’s why the universe is dark. Lmaooo😂
I have no clue what’s happening but it looks cool
can we have a video on Chien-Shiung Wu's experiment? it was really interesting and I think worth a video on its own 🙏🙏
If the universe was that dense in the beginning, with all the mass of today's universe and the matter was moving at "just" 4% the speed of light, why didn't it collapse into a giant black hole? 10^80kg of universe mass (not considering the mass eqivalent of the photons) have a schwarzschild radius of 1.485x10^50 km or roughly 10^37 light years (way bigger than universe). So... is the universe a black hole? We cannot ever escape the universe, also light cannot escspe it. But the question remains: if the universe has a mass of 10^80kg, why doesn't/didn't it collapse? Or did it and the universe is the inside of the event horizon? But if that is the case, why do we see an expanding universe?
If you sold certain the entire earth, you could only buy 80g of antimatter!
It is hard to imagine that this level of script, editing and animation quality is available to watch free.
The fact that "Antimatter Factory" is a thing.
I'm an engineer, and I consider myself reasonably educated and intelligent. I've probably watched thousands of educational videos, from this channel and many others, ranging from physics to biology, engineering to psychology, chemistry to astrophysics. It takes a lot to impress me. And yet, rarely have I ever felt so small, so humbled, and so dazzled by the heights humanity can reach as I did while watching this video’s explanation of how an anti-atom is made.
"O-r-r-r-ders of magnitude too cheap!" got a chuckle out of me!
We're making matter er... Antimatter, and we help it play hardcore mode so that it can survive for 600+ days. Daym.
As a physicist, I already knew 99% of the stuff covered in this video. So why am I watching the whole thing? Great animated illustrations and great story telling. Plus, I always enjoy seeing high energy experimental equipment.
When you started to say "They can store antiprotons for 614" in my head I was ready for seconds and thought that is pretty amazing. Then you finished with "days" and my jaw actually dropped. I find myself consistently reminded of how amazing science truly is.
I imagine a giant antimatter engine firing and the needle drops and the engineer turns to his protégé, "It's a misfire - sometimes, one in a billion particles fails to annihilate, it sounds like nothing, but we get instant hot spots and the workings gets all gunked up with clumpy, self-replicating matter; a virile and relentless adaptive chemistry that eventually consumes everything else and emerges as a free-thinking cat"
Short answer: You'd die
Why does this excite me so much that makes me wanna pursue physics again
"Worth its weight in gold" is out, "worth its weight in antigold" is in.
To whoever did all the graphics and illustrations for this video: give yourselves a pat on the back. That was a tour de force. Literally! 😉 Seriously, this may be the best use of graphics I've ever seen.
anti proton❌ Negatron✅
CERN has created dozens of significant technologies and thousands of incremental innovations, with the Web, grid computing, early touchscreens, and medical accelerator tech being the most famous contributions to the wider world
Casper: "... because you can't have a perfect vacuum." CERN guy: "No, _YOU_ can't have a perfect vacuum."