What’s the Matter of Everything? Particle Physicist Suzie Sheehy on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#300)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
What Is the Biggest Problem With Antimatter?
Charles Wilson invented the first type of particle detector called a cloud chamber, which he originally invented to study meteorology. He concluded that radiation coming from space, interacting in the atmosphere and then creating all whatever it was that he was detecting. In 1932, they found in the images from a cloud chamber particles that looked like electrons, but were bending the wrong way in a magnetic field. And almost immediately they realized are positrons,. The first discovered form of antimatter. But Carl Anderson didn't even know that antimatter had been predicted three years earlier by Dirac.
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