Experience: Antimatter sample observation

-- October 2022

Ordinary matter has a twin/doppelgänger/alter ego which is called « antimatter ». The « Standard Model » of physics tells us that these two versions of matter should exist in the same exact amount.

Yet ordinary matter dominates our observable universe.

It's still possible to generate antimatter in the laboratory, but only for very short times because when matter and its twin are put in contact they simply annihilate each other while emitting a strong burst of energy.

The fact that things put together explode and annihilate is quite fun, but it can also be seen as a proof that our current universe and its rules couldn't have existed if everything were purely symmetrical.

If there were the same amount of matter and anti-matter at the beginning of times, all of these would have annihilated, thus no observable universe.

This is a recording of the algorithmic quasi-simulation running for 45 seconds, with a set of 1 million particles subjected to a digital scalar force field.

[MP4 1920x1080 45s@30fps ~= 1350 frames] [Technics: JavaScript, ThreeJS, WebGL]