Your videos explains things sooooo well. For that, I thank you. I may always be an average joe that didn’t even finish college, and will very, very likely never be a physicist, but I love looking up at the night sky in wonder, while trying to grasp our place in it. You make these topics so incredibly accessible to people , and I can’t even begin to imagine how many young (and old!) minds you are inspiring with your passion, and your love and drive to share your knowledge. Thanks again- and please keep at it!
As promised, Arvin is marvelous! I could not always understand the first of the Sakharov conditions , the out-of-equilibrium, but only with the brief explanation of Arvin.
Arvin Ash is very good at explaining complex subjects in physics. Loved this video, matter antimatter asymmetry is one of the great mysteries of the universe. Of course we would not be here without it.
From what I've read (and you explained in your video), matter and antimatter are both self-attractive, yet matter and antimatter mutually repel each other. That could explain why there's no antimatter in our matter-centric universe. Antimatter and matter (what was left from a possible matterantimatter annihilation period taking place early during the early era of the universe) may have clumped due to their self-attractive properties. Meanwhile matter and antimatter kept repelling eachother and at some point as early as pre-star formation possibly completely separated, moving away from each other. There may be an antimatter twin universe somewhere far away from our matter-based universe which is why we never see any trace of any sizeable antimatter objects. It would be interesting to learn a theory on how/whether an antimatter universe could work. It would obviously require a revision of everything we know about physics today to understand the behavior of antimatter in a space devoid of matter.
Absolutely! This man explains things that I've been reading about for years, and suddenly it just clicks, he has an amazing talent for explaining things in easy to understand ways.😊
Very nice video essay. If I may add, your explanations on CP violation and the antimatter time-reversal would have perfectly connected to CPT symmetry, or its violation. Furthermore the deep connection of CPT symmetry to the standard model of physics via Lorenz invariance emphasizes the now very often used expression of physics beyond the standard model. I.e. the standard model of physics being right, but part of a bigger theory. A follow up video on that would suit really nicely
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Matter: "Where did all the antimatter go?" In another time and dimension... Matter: "Where did all the antimatter go?" It's only all a matter of perspective on who the matter is. By the way, Arvin Ash, I love your explanations of "weird" science better than anyone else so far. I just wish that your videos were a little longer. But then everyone else may think that's boring! Keep on churning our the wonderful , interesting science videos!
Hi Dr. Ash, I think we have given up too easily on the rapid separation explanation. If there was a slight overabundance of matter in 1/2 of the universe just prior to inflation then net matter would have been separated from antimatter faster than the speed of light. The boundary areas where we expected to see m/a annihilations all occurred during the period before recombination. As fantastically improbable that such an overabundance configuration is, if we consider that the universe is infinite, which recent examination of the CMB says is likely, then, such regional departures from average nothingness become inevitable and magnified by inflation. Which, unfortunately, is a sort of an anthropomorphic solution unless we can peer into the period of time before recombination to see something.
It seems to me that empty space is not "nothing" since Space-Time can be warped like a "fabric" & there are multiple quantum fields that can generate virtual particles.
no one can. It's just that when you solve the Dirac eq for electrons, you get two solutions the propagate with exp(-iwt), and two with exp(+iwt)...so who get's the "+" sign? Is it (-w) for electrons and (+w) for positrons (w is frequency), or can you declare "all (anti)particles have positive frequency" so that it's (-w)(+t) for electrons and (-w)(-t) for positrons? So having the (-t) means they move backwards in time. it's not really physical......but if you get into Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory, than maybe it's a way to look at it.
@Shanae He never said "nonsense" but "possibility". And he never said "always flows forward' but "seems to". In fact, no one knows the truth whether it flows forward or backwards since the model of relativity actually *requires* back-in-time trajectories between particle interactions. Read Feynman's particle path-integral. Also the usage of absolutes isn't a good habit; especially in physics. Arvin realizes that very well.
You might want to take another look at "Matter going backwards in time" it is quite a lot more unintuitive than youd think, and what we observe about antimatter actually matches what we would expect to see for time reversed particles. Charge and Parity inversion = Time inversion One thesis thats evidently false, but nontheless helpful in understanding this is the "one electron universe"
Yes indeed, the videos are info packed, so please do rewind them or watch them as many times as you need. I would not expect most people to understand this in one viewing, even some physics students.
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One of the questions of the physics that haunted me for years and still haunting is that, where is all the anti matter that was created at the beginning of the universe.
Good answer is in Medium article, starting there was no beginning of the Universe, and it explains matter/antimatter imbalance in galaxies: No More Antimatter Enigma
Of course this is an interesting subject. A couple days ago I was watching an interview with Alan Guth about various matters including the baryon number problem. I wondered if we live in a multiverse in which whole universes were created in pairs, with the baryon number problem solved by reference to the pairs of universes. An excess in matter of 1 universe correspons to an excess of antimatter in the other member of the pairs of universes.
Excellent video as always.. I know we can create anti-matter in the labs but in tiny amounts.. but in other experiments at LHC when we bang tiny particles into each other - no anti-matter is created (just like you said).. my question is why should the big bang have created anti-matter also? And I know we need anti-matter to explain super symmetry but thats only an unproven theory
Hi Arvin, can you please make a video about the physics of wireless communication? You can explain it in a much better way than anywhere else we can find :)
The structure of space is incredibly stiff, this is why it is so difficult to detect gravitational waves. Also, it could be that an entire neighboring Galaxy could be made entirely of antimatter, and we have no way of telling it only by looking at it. I believe that there are a number of surprises for us to find, as we will understand better the nature of the gravity and the making of gluons, as for all the dark matter which shows gravity interaction with normal matter, but no electromagnetic or nuclear interaction. Thank you for the thoughtful video Mr. Ash, it is greatly appreciated...
It would be incredibly easy to detect a galaxy full of antimatter, actually ^^. Each element (whether that be matter _or_ antimatter) has an "electromagnetic signature": when you make a spectrogram of anything, you'll notice holes at certain frequencies. This is how we know what stars, planets, and galaxies are made of. Look up "stars spectrogram", you'll quickly understand the principle. From what I gather, antimatter would emit a shitton of gamma rays ; which we have no problem detecting. So no, there's no "anti-galaxies", at least not near us. Antimatter is not something we can't see. We can totally detect it, it's just that it's rare for some reason. And that "for some reason" is the whole mystery behind this video!
I have this idea. Not a physicist, my explanation is awkward. Matter and antimatter are opposites because their internal energy points in opposite directions. This can be seen in a gravitational field. Energy points toward the centre, this for everything. The physicists saw antimatter going forward in time, just like matter does. Time points toward the centre for both particle types. Feynman's idea of antimatter going into another universe makes sense. What do you think? UPDATE: By energy pointing to the centre, I mean in 4th dimension. All particles move in that dimension in the same direction, that is, those that stick around, not those that come in and out of existence in a mere moment.
To those confused... Moving backwards in time does not mean being on a different, causally unconnected timeline. It means the timeline of the antiparticle is a 180° inverse of the timeline of the positive particle. The antiparticles past is the particles future, and the antiparticles future is the particles past. The conjecture about the Big Bang flinging antimatter in the reversed time direction is nonsense. Its past timeline has to be on our same timeline, not outside of it. In the moment that matter and antimatter is created, in the perspective of the antimatter, the matter and antimatter is destroyed. The conjecture switches the arrow of time on the antimatter and instead suggests a scenario where the matter and antimatter dont disagree on the direction of time, which would be nonsense.
Is it correct that the current known cross sections for CP violations in the standard model are insufficient to explain the imbalance of matter/antimatter?
@@DrDeuteron Thank you that helped. As per Arvin's explanation it would seem the standard model would have to be wrong in a pretty serious way to explain the imbalance, which is highly unlikely. Far more likely the CP violations are just a sign of a correct but incomplete theory, and that the perceived imbalance is caused by something going on in the incomplete part.
I agree it is an intriguing idea that has a lot of appeal. The main detractor is that whenever antimatter is created in a lab, it appears to go forward in time. You could argue that this is just a matter of perspective, that perhaps from some other perspective, that we are not privy to, antimatter particles are matter particles moving backward in time. But this introduces a perspective for which there is no evidence.
@@ArvinAsh I don't understand the objection to this idea... As far as we can tell, the direction of time is solely determined by entropy. So when antimatter is created in our universe, logically it also goes in the direction of increasing entropy from our universe perspective. If you look at it as going the other way in time, you would see it as normal matter. At t=0 entropy was thought to be (almost?) 0. So both directions in time would increase entropy. For me it seems so natural that the 'mirror image' of our universe contains all the antimatter that for that universe looks like normal matter. I don't think this is a falsifiable hypothesis though, but for me it follows from basic logic from what we currently know.
@@ArvinAsh Why must antimatter move backward in time? Could it not be possible that, like a coin which is having always two sides, the universe has two sides too which have been generated when the big bang happend? One with normal matter one with antimatter? And if so maybe they are interacting also with our universe in a way we do not understand, maybe that's what dark matter is. Maybe the idea is wrong, but i',m too tired to think more about it.
If there's an imbalance in matter/antimatter, perhaps it actually IS balanced, but a 3rd piece is yet to be discovered; one that only affects antimatter perhaps by attracting antimatter but deflects matter. Like, "- , + , and -/+". If an undiscovered particle is holding antimatter particles hostage, perhaps due to them bonding under the intense conditions of the first second of the universe, then attempts of matter particles annihilating with antimatter particles could be defended by the hostage-taking particle. Instead of annihilation creating massive energy in the form of gamma rays, the hostage-taking particle gains mass from the attempted annihilation, and energy is redirected back into the matter particle (or possibly elsewhere, possibly describing non-zero vacuum fluctuation). Ideally, this would provide a WIMP particle, because it only interacts with virtual particles during a matter/antimatter annihilation attempt (something we can't really observe because annihilations are only inferred when a gamma ray is created, so if there's no gamma ray, there's thought to be no matter/antimatter interaction), and gains mass every time that interaction occurs. The invisible increase of mass in the universe explains dark matter in a sense, and the outward pressure on matter particles these massive composite particles have could explain dark energy, assuming they're everywhere. Which, they'd have to be, if they were there alongside matter particles in the beginning to kidnap antimatter particles. idk
I don't have a strong opinion, but I like MOND idea. But I would be firmly in the minority on that. If it is proven to be a particle, I would probably place my bet on the Axion. BTW, I made two videos on these ideas not too long ago. MOND and Axion.
13:51 How do they know the antiparticles are traveling forwards in time? If every particle has its own reference frame, maybe from its point of view is indeed travelling backwards and from our point of view is travelling forward
Well i think the point is they look like theyre traveling forwards in time to us, not making a statement on the perspective of the particle. The conjecture was saying instead of creating a matter and antimatter pair like normal, (where if you look at it as if the antiparticle moves backwards in time) instead you create them such that the antiparticle has no past timeline connecting to the positive particle, and no point in which they generate or annihilate. By creating a particle and antiparticle, and choosing to think of the antiparticle as moving backwards in time, you have to think of the positive particle as being created at the same time as the antiparticle being destroyed in its own perspective. The past and future are switched for the two particles in this case. But in the conjecture where the antiparticles and particles "move in different directions in time and therefore never interact" the idea is that INSTEAD of the antiparticle being destroyed in the reverse-time of the particle being created, now the antiparticle is being created in tbe reverse time as the particle being created. Essentially, the conjecture isnt asking about how we think about the antiparticles own perspective, instead, its siggesting to flip the normal starting and ending point of the causal chain of events for the antiparticle, and Arvin is saying that scientists have never observed antiparticles do this. It probably violates physics.
The vacuum energy seems to only add a tiny energy density that can gravitate, this is (possibly) the cosmological constant or dark energy that makes up around 67% of the energy in the universe (equivalent to a few atoms per cubic metre). The problem is according to quantum field theory the vacuum energy should be 10^120 times bigger than that, which is why a quantum theory of gravity (which would be a theory of the vacuum of space) is still not understood. Maybe somehow the effects of the vacuum are shielded from producing gravity, who knows.
And, do these virtual particles fit into the standard model? Why don’t they produce a gamma ray like other matter/antimatter pairs that annihilate each other?
@@ronaldbrunsvold5632 Yes they are part of the standard model. They are not real ('on shell') particles so they cannot produce real particles, they only interact with real particles.
(4:00 ) *AA "You might say this box contains nothing. But in quantum physics, the box doesn't really have "nothing."* ... There are two options for addressing the "something from nothing" paradox: *(1)* You can use the accepted definition of nothing as being "the absence of anything and everything" while struggling to pull a universe chock full of matter out of a scenario that is completely void of any and all properties. ... That won't be easy! *(2)* You can simply redefine "nothing" into "something that has fields, laws, and virtual particles popping in and out of existence" in order to make whatever theory you are forwarding seem plausible. ... That would be easy! *SUMMARY:* Anything that is based on option *(2)* is _not_ dealing with how nothing is defined. Magically discovering *_stuff_* existing in your *_"box of nothing"_* is no different than fabricating an omnipotent being to explain the existence of our universe. If you want to claim that the universe emerged from a _"bubbling soup of various virtual particles popping in and out of existence"_ (Lawrence Krauss), then that's fine, but don't claim that this is the same as a universe emerging from "nothing."
It should always be remembered that Space is not nothing. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to curve in response to a large mass. The Charm Meson can change from antimatter into matter. Perhaps at the start of the Universe, conditions were such for other antiparticles to switch as well.
" The next time you hear someone speak of "empty space" consider the fact that the vacuum density of one cubit centimeter of space equals 10^93 grams. Rather than being empty space is more like a cosmic singularity..."
At 10:25 i just want to mention the mirror reflection isn't your right hand reflecting your left hand. Your right hand is actually reflecting your right hand, the mirror image actually reflects the z axis which is from the front of you going to the back of you. If that matters in the analogy.
Sir Please ans a question We have two choices First- verse have a beginning But how something can evolve from nothing 2nd- it doesn't have beginning But this points out that our verse is reason less but how something can happen/exists without any reason?
Thank you for not calling him "Soviet physicist" as although Andrei Sakharov lived in that time he was a political dissident and opposed soviet oppressive regime.
This is what TH-cam is good for. In my humble opinion is that there was equal amounts of Mater- Antimater. Under super symmetry time scales are on a different scale. That and the initial suspension of the law of attraction due to SS Antimater achieved apogee perhaps, perhaps not in any case I believe annihilationl is not off the table.
Space tunneled from Counterspace, through the Inertial plane. Space started when Dielectric energy was released from the Inertial plane, creating Time.
@@nemlehetkurvopica2454 "The gravitational interaction of antimatter with matter or antimatter has not been conclusively observed by physicists. ... Most methods for the creation of antimatter (specifically antihydrogen) result in high-energy particles and atoms of high kinetic energy, which are unsuitable for gravity-related study." - Gravitational interaction of antimatter - Wikipedia
This question always bothers me, it assumes that there would have been perfect uniformity in matter and anti-matter. Why wouldn't you assume that it would be in clumps? And if it's in clumps, wouldn't it only annihilate at the boundaries? And lastly, it's my understanding that matter and anti-matter both interact chemically and electromagnetically and therefore would be indistinguishable from one another and the only way to tell which it is is to have it interact with a know matter/anti-matter. Therefore wouldn't that mean that some of the galactic super clusters could be anti-matter and we would have no way of telling the difference?
Two conceptual explanations for the imbalance of matter and antimatter: 1. ..A universe was created in a first ever big bang. That universe, which included CP violating processes, grew until its gravity reversed the expansion and it collapsed into a big crunch. The rebound 2ᴺᴰ universe, also subject to CP violating processes, grew until its gravity reversed the expansion and it collapsed into 2ᴺᴰ big crunch. The process continued until a universe was created containing the present matter/antimatter imbalance. Maybe coincidentally, maybe systemically, the universe with our present matter/antimatter imbalance contained sufficient negative energy to resist any future reversal of its expansion. Would there be a link between matter/antimatter imbalance and energy/negative energy imbalance? 2. ..At the big bang, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts but, due to some subtle, CP violation driven difference between the properties of matter and antimatter, the antimatter accelerated outward at a higher average velocity than did the matter. In the overlap region of matter and antimatter, a great deal of annihilation took place. The remaining antimatter would then forever lie beyond the "sphere" of matter. The sphere of the CMB would lie between the inner sphere of matter and the outer sphere of antimatter. As collateral matter of interest, taking into account the Hubble constant, how far beyond the CMB would one calculate that the recessional velocity of the universe is equal to the speed of light? Would the antimatter universe perceive itself as being the inner sphere and our universe as the outer sphere?
Ok, something I've always wondered, is since matter/antimatter annhilation results in energy release (gamma usually right?), why don't we see gamma rays coming from the virtual particle pairs when they annhilate? Doesn't this mean that we'd be seeing gamma rays coming from literally everywhere?
The simplest theory that explains the koino-matter vs. anti-matter conundrum is to allow each their own time vector and to let those time vectors have opposite direction. Then the two types of matter instantly will separate instead of instantly re-colliding in the moment of creation.
It's an intriguing idea that has a lot of appeal. The main detractor is that whenever we have created antimatter in a lab, they all annihilate and go forward in time. So experimental evidence to support this idea is lacking.
@@ArvinAsh No, conditions are not the same, you are comparing different situations. The original singularity has time=0, ie. you are not on a time vector and you can "select" direction of travel, for instance in accordance with some definition of polarity. Now we are on a time vector with a defined direction of travel and have to adhere to it, apparently also if antimatter. So there is no contradiction in the difference between those scenarios, they are different. At the Origo you begin with nothing being defined. Read James Blish's book about time and universe - and a lot more, it is a good swashbuckler - "Cities Flight" or "The City" - it is quite profound and Blish has given the Origo a good deal of thought.
I also remember a time when I questioned this very thing! In 6th grade catholic school. My 7th grade was in public school. Later in life, my parents told me that the nuns requested that I not attend their school. Too many questions......like, did Adam and Eve have a belly button? Pardon the rant....Ill just leave it at that. Take care, Matt. And a big 👍 for the flashback.
He says "we would expect to see some high energy gamma rays from the border areas where matter objects encountered antimatter objects." But isn't that assuming that the closest antimatter galaxy is within the Hubble Bubble? Isn't it more likely that regions of the cosmos like this Hubble bubble are rarities dispersed in a universe composed of mostly empty regions where matter and anti-matter quantities were equal and that there are an equal number of anti-matter Hubble bubbles as matter ones, just incredibly far apart from each other?
@@ArvinAsh It's like this.. If there was anti-matter enough to make galaxies in some proximal location to matter-made galaxies, then you WOULD certainly see the mother of all explosions. I just think that any matter/anti-matter imbalance produced in the big bang that was close enough to our universe would have only contributed to inflation long before it had time to coalesce into galaxies. Yeah, matter/anti-matter annihilation as far as the eye can see - except for a sprinkling of matter or anti-matter islands shimmering in the void.
Like an atomic bomb going off, there is no run away chain reaction because as it explodes it is no longer symmetrical. Maybe the "Big Bang" did the same thing. As the explosion occured the antimatter and matter were no longer close enough to react as they flew apart. That would mean that the antimatter is still somewhere in the Universe. Maybe
11:09 parity does not flip spin, it flips momentum. I know your animation of a mirror effect is correct, but really the spin should point into the mirror for that. The problem arises b/c parity takes (x, y, z) to (-x, -y, -z), while your mirror-in-the-YZ-plane takes it to (-x, y ,z). Since both determinants are -1, you can proceed, but it may cause some confusion to newbies.
If we refer to "Everything" AKA "The Universe" it is a single closed and Isolated system, where its total quanta of all it's matter equates to 1 As a whole it's "All The Universe" all else is a fraction, as in a part of "100%" or "1" Add a contradictory quanta Eg: Antimatter -1 or a some fraction to Matter we end up with a fraction of all the matter being in Violation to Conservation. Game Over for the contradictory quanta that is Antimatter, what's left is what the actual Universe always was and always will be..
@@KorAllRBare my post has nothing to with the universe, it's a bout the mathematics of the parity operator and how we call it a mirror reflection, even though it is technically a little different. But not much.
@@KorAllRBare yang and lee won the1957 Nobel prize for it, after Madame Wu famously observed maximal parity violation (momentum aligned with spin) in 1956. So it's been around for some time.
@@DrDeuteron So what does that say? It's been around for quite a while, and I repeat my question, Who has advanced the Theory and who if any is investing in it's advancement, and more importantly to what end?
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Your videos explains things sooooo well. For that, I thank you.
I may always be an average joe that didn’t even finish college, and will very, very likely never be a physicist, but I love looking up at the night sky in wonder, while trying to grasp our place in it. You make these topics so incredibly accessible to people , and I can’t even begin to imagine how many young (and old!) minds you are inspiring with your passion, and your love and drive to share your knowledge. Thanks again- and please keep at it!
Arvin Ash and Dr PhysicsA are the clearest explainers of science in the Internet.
As promised, Arvin is marvelous! I could not always understand the first of the Sakharov conditions , the out-of-equilibrium, but only with the brief explanation of Arvin.
yes he is clear
cmb vs cgwb - not boundary gamma waves? food for thought
He's way to teach is almost unique, and makes all he says, crystal clear! Thanks Arvin!
Arvin Ash is very good at explaining complex subjects in physics. Loved this video, matter antimatter asymmetry is one of the great mysteries of the universe. Of course we would not be here without it.
Maybe you wouldn’t, but I would
Thank you, Arvin! Great video and explanation as always 👏
From what I've read (and you explained in your video), matter and antimatter are both self-attractive, yet matter and antimatter mutually repel each other. That could explain why there's no antimatter in our matter-centric universe. Antimatter and matter (what was left from a possible matterantimatter annihilation period taking place early during the early era of the universe) may have clumped due to their self-attractive properties. Meanwhile matter and antimatter kept repelling eachother and at some point as early as pre-star formation possibly completely separated, moving away from each other. There may be an antimatter twin universe somewhere far away from our matter-based universe which is why we never see any trace of any sizeable antimatter objects.
It would be interesting to learn a theory on how/whether an antimatter universe could work. It would obviously require a revision of everything we know about physics today to understand the behavior of antimatter in a space devoid of matter.
I can tell that you and your team worked hard on this video. Keep up the good work.
I don't understand why Arvin's videos aren't more widely watched. Just here to push the algorithm.
There are many things in this universe that you don’t understand my friend.
Absolutely! This man explains things that I've been reading about for years, and suddenly it just clicks, he has an amazing talent for explaining things in easy to understand ways.😊
What happened to anti-matter? I don't know -- go ask uncle-matter!
Or ask cousin-matter
Awesome video! Thank you Arvin, take care brother. The next generation is lucky to have you, and your videos.
I appreciate that!
Very nice video essay. If I may add, your explanations on CP violation and the antimatter time-reversal would have perfectly connected to CPT symmetry, or its violation. Furthermore the deep connection of CPT symmetry to the standard model of physics via Lorenz invariance emphasizes the now very often used expression of physics beyond the standard model. I.e. the standard model of physics being right, but part of a bigger theory. A follow up video on that would suit really nicely
"coming up.. right now" so pleasing to hear from you every time 👌
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Excellent video! What about T and CPT violations and their impact on the Standard Model and the Theory of General Relativity?
Matter: "Where did all the antimatter go?"
In another time and dimension...
Matter: "Where did all the antimatter go?"
It's only all a matter of perspective on who the matter is.
By the way, Arvin Ash, I love your explanations of "weird" science better than anyone else so far. I just wish that your videos were a little longer. But then everyone else may think that's boring! Keep on churning our the wonderful , interesting science videos!
Hi Dr. Ash, I think we have given up too easily on the rapid separation explanation. If there was a slight overabundance of matter in 1/2 of the universe just prior to inflation then net matter would have been separated from antimatter faster than the speed of light. The boundary areas where we expected to see m/a annihilations all occurred during the period before recombination. As fantastically improbable that such an overabundance configuration is, if we consider that the universe is infinite, which recent examination of the CMB says is likely, then, such regional departures from average nothingness become inevitable and magnified by inflation. Which, unfortunately, is a sort of an anthropomorphic solution unless we can peer into the period of time before recombination to see something.
An "infinite" universe can't have expanded from a single point 14 billion years ago. I think you need to recheck your understanding.
Thanks Marvin
Dude, I'm giving this a thumbs up just for the phonetic eloquence of "baryogenesis anomaly"...
I gave a thumbs up for the girl blowing kisses in the mirror!
@Paul Wolf
Please, no bible references. We’re having so much fun here.
I've been waiting for so long... finally it's here
and then it's not
What tools do you use for your animations ?
I don't make the animations myself. I believe my team members use both Adobe and Sony products.
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It seems to me that empty space is not "nothing" since Space-Time can be warped like a "fabric" & there are multiple quantum fields that can generate virtual particles.
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I think its wonderful that you’ve replied to so many of these comments. That really puts you a step ahead.
The feynmann idea blew my mind
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I just can’t picture antimatter going backwards in time, would you please talk about that in more details? Great video!
no one can. It's just that when you solve the Dirac eq for electrons, you get two solutions the propagate with exp(-iwt), and two with exp(+iwt)...so who get's the "+" sign? Is it (-w) for electrons and (+w) for positrons (w is frequency), or can you declare "all (anti)particles have positive frequency" so that it's (-w)(+t) for electrons and (-w)(-t) for positrons? So having the (-t) means they move backwards in time.
it's not really physical......but if you get into Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory, than maybe it's a way to look at it.
@Shanae He never said "nonsense" but "possibility". And he never said "always flows forward' but "seems to". In fact, no one knows the truth whether it flows forward or backwards since the model of relativity actually *requires* back-in-time trajectories between particle interactions. Read Feynman's particle path-integral.
Also the usage of absolutes isn't a good habit; especially in physics. Arvin realizes that very well.
@Shanae
There’s a conspiratorial edge to your comment.
This channel is a little more clear than other channels.
I love your videos man… 💪🏼
Excellent video, as always. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
Fascinating indeed
You might want to take another look at "Matter going backwards in time" it is quite a lot more unintuitive than youd think, and what we observe about antimatter actually matches what we would expect to see for time reversed particles.
Charge and Parity inversion = Time inversion
One thesis thats evidently false, but nontheless helpful in understanding this is the "one electron universe"
Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸
I watch your videos two steps forward, one step back. That's how often I have to rewind because your trying to put years of college in a
Yes indeed, the videos are info packed, so please do rewind them or watch them as many times as you need. I would not expect most people to understand this in one viewing, even some physics students.
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Premiere it was recorded it's been sending live .
Arvin Ash … You have The GREATEST GIFT GIVEN BY GOD TO ANY MAN … to explain , and MAKE CLEAR THE WONDROUS WONDERS HE HAS USED TO CREATE US AND ALL THE VISIBLE AND UNSEEN UNIVERSE … I can’t wait to sit and listen to You , and Elohim Creator TAKING TURNS THRILLING ALL OF US WITH ALL THE REST …
As always, I feel slightly closer to truth
I see what you did there ;)
Great comment 👌
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@@zahajek27 good point, I guess the best we have for now is an approximation
One of the questions of the physics that haunted me for years and still haunting is that, where is all the anti matter that was created at the beginning of the universe.
That question also haunts most cosmologists.
Good answer is in Medium article, starting there was no beginning of the Universe, and it explains matter/antimatter imbalance in galaxies:
No More Antimatter Enigma
What a fantastic video! My favourite explanation is leptogenesis via sterile neutrinos and the sphaleron process :)
Thanks Arvin for the informative video as always. Would you explain how we make matters and anti matters in the lab?
Of course this is an interesting subject. A couple days ago I was watching an interview with Alan Guth about various matters including the baryon number problem. I wondered if we live in a multiverse in which whole universes were created in pairs, with the baryon number problem solved by reference to the pairs of universes. An excess in matter of 1 universe correspons to an excess of antimatter in the other member of the pairs of universes.
Lotta fun man watching your videos. Thank you
Thanks for the brain food, Arvin!
My very favourite Physics channel....
Excellent video as always.. I know we can create anti-matter in the labs but in tiny amounts.. but in other experiments at LHC when we bang tiny particles into each other - no anti-matter is created (just like you said).. my question is why should the big bang have created anti-matter also? And I know we need anti-matter to explain super symmetry but thats only an unproven theory
Nice work on the visuals!
Hi Arvin, can you please make a video about the physics of wireless communication? You can explain it in a much better way than anywhere else we can find :)
Explaining 5G is on my list. But check out Lesics for engineering explanations. I think they do a really good job.
@@ArvinAsh Thanks, I will check it out!
The structure of space is incredibly stiff, this is why it is so difficult to detect gravitational waves.
Also, it could be that an entire neighboring Galaxy could be made entirely of antimatter, and we have no way of telling it only by looking at it.
I believe that there are a number of surprises for us to find, as we will understand better the nature of the gravity and the making of gluons, as for all the dark matter which shows gravity interaction with normal matter, but no electromagnetic or nuclear interaction.
Thank you for the thoughtful video Mr. Ash, it is greatly appreciated...
It would be incredibly easy to detect a galaxy full of antimatter, actually ^^. Each element (whether that be matter _or_ antimatter) has an "electromagnetic signature": when you make a spectrogram of anything, you'll notice holes at certain frequencies. This is how we know what stars, planets, and galaxies are made of. Look up "stars spectrogram", you'll quickly understand the principle.
From what I gather, antimatter would emit a shitton of gamma rays ; which we have no problem detecting.
So no, there's no "anti-galaxies", at least not near us. Antimatter is not something we can't see. We can totally detect it, it's just that it's rare for some reason. And that "for some reason" is the whole mystery behind this video!
Mmmm... A possible antimatter Universe moving backwards in Time? He's been watching too much Tennant!
Who can ever get enough of Tenet!
Thank you Sir Arvin
OMG the hype is high right now
I have this idea. Not a physicist, my explanation is awkward. Matter and antimatter are opposites because their internal energy points in opposite directions. This can be seen in a gravitational field. Energy points toward the centre, this for everything. The physicists saw antimatter going forward in time, just like matter does. Time points toward the centre for both particle types. Feynman's idea of antimatter going into another universe makes sense. What do you think?
UPDATE: By energy pointing to the centre, I mean in 4th dimension. All particles move in that dimension in the same direction, that is, those that stick around, not those that come in and out of existence in a mere moment.
You're so smart and you describe everything so well. You must be a genius lol
To those confused...
Moving backwards in time does not mean being on a different, causally unconnected timeline. It means the timeline of the antiparticle is a 180° inverse of the timeline of the positive particle. The antiparticles past is the particles future, and the antiparticles future is the particles past.
The conjecture about the Big Bang flinging antimatter in the reversed time direction is nonsense. Its past timeline has to be on our same timeline, not outside of it. In the moment that matter and antimatter is created, in the perspective of the antimatter, the matter and antimatter is destroyed. The conjecture switches the arrow of time on the antimatter and instead suggests a scenario where the matter and antimatter dont disagree on the direction of time, which would be nonsense.
Is it correct that the current known cross sections for CP violations in the standard model are insufficient to explain the imbalance of matter/antimatter?
Yes!
look up the "Jarlskog Invariant".
@@DrDeuteron Thank you that helped. As per Arvin's explanation it would seem the standard model would have to be wrong in a pretty serious way to explain the imbalance, which is highly unlikely. Far more likely the CP violations are just a sign of a correct but incomplete theory, and that the perceived imbalance is caused by something going on in the incomplete part.
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I would still sort of support Feynman's way of thinking.
I agree it is an intriguing idea that has a lot of appeal. The main detractor is that whenever antimatter is created in a lab, it appears to go forward in time. You could argue that this is just a matter of perspective, that perhaps from some other perspective, that we are not privy to, antimatter particles are matter particles moving backward in time. But this introduces a perspective for which there is no evidence.
@@ArvinAsh
I don't understand the objection to this idea...
As far as we can tell, the direction of time is solely determined by entropy. So when antimatter is created in our universe, logically it also goes in the direction of increasing entropy from our universe perspective. If you look at it as going the other way in time, you would see it as normal matter.
At t=0 entropy was thought to be (almost?) 0. So both directions in time would increase entropy. For me it seems so natural that the 'mirror image' of our universe contains all the antimatter that for that universe looks like normal matter.
I don't think this is a falsifiable hypothesis though, but for me it follows from basic logic from what we currently know.
@@ArvinAsh Why must antimatter move backward in time? Could it not be possible that, like a coin which is having always two sides, the universe has two sides too which have been generated when the big bang happend? One with normal matter one with antimatter? And if so maybe they are interacting also with our universe in a way we do not understand, maybe that's what dark matter is.
Maybe the idea is wrong, but i',m too tired to think more about it.
Space e->~
@@ArvinAsh How many Gamma Rays come out of an empty breadbox sized box in an hour?
If there's an imbalance in matter/antimatter, perhaps it actually IS balanced, but a 3rd piece is yet to be discovered; one that only affects antimatter perhaps by attracting antimatter but deflects matter. Like, "- , + , and -/+".
If an undiscovered particle is holding antimatter particles hostage, perhaps due to them bonding under the intense conditions of the first second of the universe, then attempts of matter particles annihilating with antimatter particles could be defended by the hostage-taking particle. Instead of annihilation creating massive energy in the form of gamma rays, the hostage-taking particle gains mass from the attempted annihilation, and energy is redirected back into the matter particle (or possibly elsewhere, possibly describing non-zero vacuum fluctuation). Ideally, this would provide a WIMP particle, because it only interacts with virtual particles during a matter/antimatter annihilation attempt (something we can't really observe because annihilations are only inferred when a gamma ray is created, so if there's no gamma ray, there's thought to be no matter/antimatter interaction), and gains mass every time that interaction occurs.
The invisible increase of mass in the universe explains dark matter in a sense, and the outward pressure on matter particles these massive composite particles have could explain dark energy, assuming they're everywhere. Which, they'd have to be, if they were there alongside matter particles in the beginning to kidnap antimatter particles.
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Hello Arvin,
Which theory is best for explaining dark matter currently according to you?
I don't have a strong opinion, but I like MOND idea. But I would be firmly in the minority on that. If it is proven to be a particle, I would probably place my bet on the Axion. BTW, I made two videos on these ideas not too long ago. MOND and Axion.
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After trying so hard we don't find any axions
Do we need to modify theory or experiment infrastructure?
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13:51 How do they know the antiparticles are traveling forwards in time? If every particle has its own reference frame, maybe from its point of view is indeed travelling backwards and from our point of view is travelling forward
Probably because they decay. And to decay you need to move forward in time.
Well i think the point is they look like theyre traveling forwards in time to us, not making a statement on the perspective of the particle.
The conjecture was saying instead of creating a matter and antimatter pair like normal, (where if you look at it as if the antiparticle moves backwards in time) instead you create them such that the antiparticle has no past timeline connecting to the positive particle, and no point in which they generate or annihilate.
By creating a particle and antiparticle, and choosing to think of the antiparticle as moving backwards in time, you have to think of the positive particle as being created at the same time as the antiparticle being destroyed in its own perspective. The past and future are switched for the two particles in this case.
But in the conjecture where the antiparticles and particles "move in different directions in time and therefore never interact" the idea is that INSTEAD of the antiparticle being destroyed in the reverse-time of the particle being created, now the antiparticle is being created in tbe reverse time as the particle being created.
Essentially, the conjecture isnt asking about how we think about the antiparticles own perspective, instead, its siggesting to flip the normal starting and ending point of the causal chain of events for the antiparticle, and Arvin is saying that scientists have never observed antiparticles do this. It probably violates physics.
Great presentation ! Thank you
4:24 ? Do virtual particles create gravity? What is density of virtual particles? How much grams per cubic centimeter, even if ephereral?
The vacuum energy seems to only add a tiny energy density that can gravitate, this is (possibly) the cosmological constant or dark energy that makes up around 67% of the energy in the universe (equivalent to a few atoms per cubic metre). The problem is according to quantum field theory the vacuum energy should be 10^120 times bigger than that, which is why a quantum theory of gravity (which would be a theory of the vacuum of space) is still not understood. Maybe somehow the effects of the vacuum are shielded from producing gravity, who knows.
And, do these virtual particles fit into the standard model? Why don’t they produce a gamma ray like other matter/antimatter pairs that annihilate each other?
@@ronaldbrunsvold5632 Yes they are part of the standard model. They are not real ('on shell') particles so they cannot produce real particles, they only interact with real particles.
(4:00 ) *AA "You might say this box contains nothing. But in quantum physics, the box doesn't really have "nothing."* ... There are two options for addressing the "something from nothing" paradox:
*(1)* You can use the accepted definition of nothing as being "the absence of anything and everything" while struggling to pull a universe chock full of matter out of a scenario that is completely void of any and all properties. ... That won't be easy!
*(2)* You can simply redefine "nothing" into "something that has fields, laws, and virtual particles popping in and out of existence" in order to make whatever theory you are forwarding seem plausible. ... That would be easy!
*SUMMARY:*
Anything that is based on option *(2)* is _not_ dealing with how nothing is defined. Magically discovering *_stuff_* existing in your *_"box of nothing"_* is no different than fabricating an omnipotent being to explain the existence of our universe.
If you want to claim that the universe emerged from a _"bubbling soup of various virtual particles popping in and out of existence"_ (Lawrence Krauss), then that's fine, but don't claim that this is the same as a universe emerging from "nothing."
It should always be remembered that Space is not nothing. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to curve in response to a large mass. The Charm Meson can change from antimatter into matter. Perhaps at the start of the Universe, conditions were such for other antiparticles to switch as well.
Charm quarks decay but positions can't.
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" The next time you hear someone speak of "empty space" consider the fact that the vacuum density of one cubit centimeter of space equals 10^93 grams. Rather than being empty space is more like a cosmic singularity..."
@@gnarlydewd there is in average 1 proton per cubic meter of empty space.
@@onderozenc4470 do you even know what electrons and protons are?
At 10:25 i just want to mention the mirror reflection isn't your right hand reflecting your left hand. Your right hand is actually reflecting your right hand, the mirror image actually reflects the z axis which is from the front of you going to the back of you. If that matters in the analogy.
What I was trying to say is that your right hand is your mirror image's left hand, and vice versa.
@@ArvinAsh gotcha! btw i love your videos. Thanks for making them!
Antimatter could form standard galaxies 'just' over the visable horizon, this could explain the fractal bubble structures we observe!!!
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@@HerrFunnybones ??? Sorry I don't get your reference :(.
If there’s an arc or bubbles it’s usually a higher dimension interacting with another
@@HerrFunnybones Yep, thanks for replying. The cosmological question is 'which' dimensions. Is it an evolving metric or just skew parameters??
Sir
Please ans a question
We have two choices
First- verse have a beginning
But how something can evolve from nothing
2nd- it doesn't have beginning
But this points out that our verse is reason less but how something can happen/exists without any reason?
Thank you for not calling him "Soviet physicist" as although Andrei Sakharov lived in that time he was a political dissident and opposed soviet oppressive regime.
Yes indeed, I had heard about his views on Soviet oppression long before I learned about his scientific achievements.
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In my humble opinion is that there was equal amounts of Mater- Antimater.
Under super symmetry time scales are on a different scale.
That and the initial suspension of the law of attraction due to SS Antimater achieved apogee perhaps, perhaps not in any case I believe annihilationl is not off the table.
Sir, is it possible that dark matter is a remnant of pervious universe?
Is "pervious" universe one filled with weirdos, paedos and pervs!!! And that explains why is is called dark matter lol
Space tunneled from Counterspace, through the Inertial plane. Space started when Dielectric energy was released from the Inertial plane, creating Time.
@@gyro5d 😅
So cool that Erwin Schrödinger is animated at 3:55 Did you do this for the first time or did I just not notice it?
Thanks. We started doing this in the past couple of videos. It's a kind of Easter egg that not everyone notices.
There's also "Phoenix Theory" that also assumes anti-matter has negative gravity
@@nemlehetkurvopica2454 "The gravitational interaction of antimatter with matter or antimatter has not been conclusively observed by physicists. ... Most methods for the creation of antimatter (specifically antihydrogen) result in high-energy particles and atoms of high kinetic energy, which are unsuitable for gravity-related study." - Gravitational interaction of antimatter - Wikipedia
Love your channel and videos, very informative! You're on the road to 10 million subs!
I think Arvin would be happy with a mere 1 million subs. You know, for the immediate future anyway.
Hope I didn’t step on your toes there, @Arvin Ash.
She divorced Uncle Matter and is now living in SoCal with a guy named Raul.
She's also in a lesbian relationship with Auntie Christa.
Ah, if course!
Raul was always so dark and mysterious
This question always bothers me, it assumes that there would have been perfect uniformity in matter and anti-matter. Why wouldn't you assume that it would be in clumps? And if it's in clumps, wouldn't it only annihilate at the boundaries? And lastly, it's my understanding that matter and anti-matter both interact chemically and electromagnetically and therefore would be indistinguishable from one another and the only way to tell which it is is to have it interact with a know matter/anti-matter. Therefore wouldn't that mean that some of the galactic super clusters could be anti-matter and we would have no way of telling the difference?
But then the gamma rays would occur right?
Somewhere out there is another universe , also wondering where all the antimatter is 😊
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Hi. We went to this fancy universe and substituted all the antimatter for Folger's crystals. Let's see if anyone notices.
+1 Notice
Noticeable improvement-good job!!!
Is that why my Coffee is so tasty?
Two conceptual explanations for the imbalance of matter and antimatter:
1. ..A universe was created in a first ever big bang. That universe, which included CP violating processes, grew until its gravity reversed the expansion and it collapsed into a big crunch. The rebound 2ᴺᴰ universe, also subject to CP violating processes, grew until its gravity reversed the expansion and it collapsed into 2ᴺᴰ big crunch. The process continued until a universe was created containing the present matter/antimatter imbalance. Maybe coincidentally, maybe systemically, the universe with our present matter/antimatter imbalance contained sufficient negative energy to resist any future reversal of its expansion. Would there be a link between matter/antimatter imbalance and energy/negative energy imbalance?
2. ..At the big bang, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts but, due to some subtle, CP violation driven difference between the properties of matter and antimatter, the antimatter accelerated outward at a higher average velocity than did the matter. In the overlap region of matter and antimatter, a great deal of annihilation took place. The remaining antimatter would then forever lie beyond the "sphere" of matter. The sphere of the CMB would lie between the inner sphere of matter and the outer sphere of antimatter. As collateral matter of interest, taking into account the Hubble constant, how far beyond the CMB would one calculate that the recessional velocity of the universe is equal to the speed of light? Would the antimatter universe perceive itself as being the inner sphere and our universe as the outer sphere?
In an antimatter universe, instead of wondering why we're here, do we wonder why we're NOT here?
Yes, because the antimatter universe is not here. So that is exactly what they wonder.
@@SgtSupaman maybe they know where my damn keys are.
Ok, something I've always wondered, is since matter/antimatter annhilation results in energy release (gamma usually right?), why don't we see gamma rays coming from the virtual particle pairs when they annhilate? Doesn't this mean that we'd be seeing gamma rays coming from literally everywhere?
Ahhh, the folly of Man and his hubris. Yeah, everything just leaped into existence..... YEAH! Phhhhft. Nope.
Don't tell me, it required a magical sky fairy to snap his fingers.
@@garethhanby straw man, go read a book, preferably the Bible. Open your mind.
@@evanw2195 lol, the irony of a christian telling someone to open their mind and read the bible.
Have you got any other pearlers to go with that?
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The simplest theory that explains the koino-matter vs. anti-matter conundrum is to allow each their own time vector and to let those time vectors have opposite direction. Then the two types of matter instantly will separate instead of instantly re-colliding in the moment of creation.
It's an intriguing idea that has a lot of appeal. The main detractor is that whenever we have created antimatter in a lab, they all annihilate and go forward in time. So experimental evidence to support this idea is lacking.
@@ArvinAsh No, conditions are not the same, you are comparing different situations. The original singularity has time=0, ie. you are not on a time vector and you can "select" direction of travel, for instance in accordance with some definition of polarity. Now we are on a time vector with a defined direction of travel and have to adhere to it, apparently also if antimatter. So there is no contradiction in the difference between those scenarios, they are different. At the Origo you begin with nothing being defined. Read James Blish's book about time and universe - and a lot more, it is a good swashbuckler - "Cities Flight" or "The City" - it is quite profound and Blish has given the Origo a good deal of thought.
Since I was a small child I’ve always wondered… Why isn’t there just nothing?
I also remember a time when I questioned this very thing! In 6th grade catholic school. My 7th grade was in public school. Later in life, my parents told me that the nuns requested that I not attend their school. Too many questions......like, did Adam and Eve have a belly button? Pardon the rant....Ill just leave it at that. Take care, Matt. And a big 👍 for the flashback.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle is friggin' brilliant.
Thanks!
Great explanations! This was fun to watch.
He says "we would expect to see some high energy gamma rays from the border areas where matter objects encountered antimatter objects." But isn't that assuming that the closest antimatter galaxy is within the Hubble Bubble? Isn't it more likely that regions of the cosmos like this Hubble bubble are rarities dispersed in a universe composed of mostly empty regions where matter and anti-matter quantities were equal and that there are an equal number of anti-matter Hubble bubbles as matter ones, just incredibly far apart from each other?
It is possible we can't see it, if it is beyond the visible universe. We should see it if within the visible universe though.
@@ArvinAsh It's like this.. If there was anti-matter enough to make galaxies in some proximal location to matter-made galaxies, then you WOULD certainly see the mother of all explosions.
I just think that any matter/anti-matter imbalance produced in the big bang that was close enough to our universe would have only contributed to inflation long before it had time to coalesce into galaxies. Yeah, matter/anti-matter annihilation as far as the eye can see - except for a sprinkling of matter or anti-matter islands shimmering in the void.
Right now? I can't wait!
Another fantastic dose of knowledge (and hypotheses). Thanks!
Great video
Like an atomic bomb going off, there is no run away chain reaction because as it explodes it is no longer symmetrical. Maybe the "Big Bang" did the same thing. As the explosion occured the antimatter and matter were no longer close enough to react as they flew apart. That would mean that the antimatter is still somewhere in the Universe. Maybe
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The truth already lies in our mind ,for all those times.
11:09 parity does not flip spin, it flips momentum. I know your animation of a mirror effect is correct, but really the spin should point into the mirror for that. The problem arises b/c parity takes (x, y, z) to (-x, -y, -z), while your mirror-in-the-YZ-plane takes it to (-x, y ,z). Since both determinants are -1, you can proceed, but it may cause some confusion to newbies.
If we refer to "Everything" AKA "The Universe" it is a single closed and Isolated system, where its total quanta of all it's matter
equates to 1 As a whole it's "All The Universe" all else is a fraction, as in a part of "100%" or "1"
Add a contradictory quanta Eg: Antimatter -1 or a some fraction to Matter we end up with a fraction of all the matter being in
Violation to Conservation. Game Over for the contradictory quanta that is Antimatter, what's left is what the actual
Universe always was and always will be..
@@KorAllRBare my post has nothing to with the universe, it's a bout the mathematics of the parity operator and how we call it a mirror reflection, even though it is technically a little different. But not much.
@@DrDeuteron And hows that going?
And is/has anyone invested funds into it?
@@KorAllRBare yang and lee won the1957 Nobel prize for it, after Madame Wu famously observed maximal parity violation (momentum aligned with spin) in 1956. So it's been around for some time.
@@DrDeuteron
So what does that say?
It's been around for quite a while, and I repeat my question,
Who has advanced the Theory and who if any is investing in it's advancement, and more importantly to what end?