The Reason for Antiparticles

<p><strong>The Reason for Antiparticles.</strong><br><strong>The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 3. Episode 8.<br></strong><a href="https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics">https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics</a><br>©2022 The Pasayten Institute <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">cc by-sa-4.0</a></p><p><strong>The eBook</strong></p><p>The Field Guide to Particle Physics eBook is<a href="https://pasayten.org/get-the-book"> now available</a>! If you're looking to support the show, we've got some <a href="https://pasayten.org/store">fun options for you here</a>, or you could <a href="https://ko-fi.com/seanforscience">buy us a coffee</a>!</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: <a href="https://pdg.lbl.gov/">https://pdg.lbl.gov</a>. This episode also pays tribute to <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elementary-particles-and-the-laws-of-physics/the-reason-for-antiparticles/9D72E7C9045A9C0797DD952678F03C75">Richard Feynman’s 1986 Memorial Dirac Lecture</a>.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation">Terrell-Penrose rotation</a> can be viewed from a human perspective in at "<a href="http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/">A Slower Speed of Light</a>" by MIT's GameLab. That demo also includes the relativistic doppler effect. Some other great videos by Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn at <a href="https://www.spacetimetravel.org">spacetimetravel.org</a>. See in particular their <a href="https://www.spacetimetravel.org/tompkins/tompkins.html">dice demo</a>.</p><p><strong>The Reason for Antiparticles.</strong></p><p>Antimatter is uncommon, but it’s not exactly rare. Antiparticles - especially those generated by cosmic radiation - are all around us, all the time. But just what is it doing here?</p><p><strong>Antimatter is just like Matter</strong></p><p>In a lot of ways, antimatter behaves just like matter does. Quarks make up