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Introducing Season 3 : Antimatter!

I hope you enjoyed Season 2, and the bonus episodes on cosmic rays that followed shortly after. 

This is just a short note to let you know that we’re still hard at work on developing Season 3, and the Season 3 will be all about ANTIMATTER.

We’ve mentioned antimatter in brief before, for example, how the positron and the electron can collide, annihilating each other to turn into a pair of photons. 

In seasons one and two, antimatter was used for taxonomy; it was used to organize the particles we know. 

This season, we’re going to dig much deeper. We’ll explore what it means for a particle to have an antiparticle partner.

Questions we’ll discuss include:

• Where does antimatter come from, and what’s with that name?
• Why is there so little of it in the universe?
• Does antimatter always annihilate matter?
• What does it mean to be your OWN antiparticle partner?
• Finally, what can we USE it for?

We’ll finish season 3 with what we DON’T YET know about antimatter. Like just who, exactly, is the antiparticle partner of the neutrino.

At the Pasayten Institute, antimatter fills our minds with wonder - and a little bit of terror. By the end of next season, we hope to fills yours with curiosity to explore more.

We’re excited to share these ideas - and a few stories - with you!