Summer Science Exhibition 2016: Antimatter Matters
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2016 · Science & Technology
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages. https://royalsociety.org/events/summer-science-exhibition/ Why is everything made of matter, when antimatter was once abundant? Antimatter is rare in the Universe today, but it’s thought half the Universe was formed of it at the Big Bang. Understanding why so much antimatter disappeared is one of the biggest challenges in physics. Our exhibit reveals how the LHCb and ALPHA experiments at CERN are comparing the behaviour of matter and antimatter to try and solve this puzzle.
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