High Science

It's time to talk about some of the more exotic ideas of physics. High Science tackles dark matter, dark energy,  and antimatter. In this episode we explore the edge of our current understanding of the universe. Topics Discussed: Dark Matter How it was discovered: galaxies didn't rotate as we expected them to Fritz Zwicky: Theorized dark matter and called people spherical bastards Ideas about what dark matter could be: WIMPs - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles MACHOs - Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects Axions - Slow moving, weakly interacting particles Kaluza-Klein Particles: There's a 5th dimension curled in on itself (???) Gravitinos - Arises from super-symmetry Antimatter Fundamental particles with opposite electric charge (the anti electron is the positron) Paul Dirac theorized antimatter and it was later observed Anti-hydrogen was created! The issue with experimenting with antimatter: if it touches ordinary matter in annihilates and releases a bunch of ene