Prof. Joel Fajans | Fundamental Tests with Antihydrogen Atoms

When the Big Bang created the current universe, there should have been as much matter as anti-matter created. If so, the end result would then have been that all the matter annihilated the anti-matter, leaving pure energy. That didn’t happen - and so there must have been more matter than anti-matter. This is a huge physics quandary that is best studied by making and measuring the properties of anti-atoms, plasmas made of anti-matter, and compare those properties to their matter counterparts.
In this video, Prof. Joel Fajans of the University of California at Berkeley, describes his research into the properties of antihydrogen atoms. The results of that research may solve this fundamental quandary on the origins of the universe.