Could we create dark matter? - Rolf Landua
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-we-create-dark-matter-rolf-landua Eighty-five percent of the matter in our universe...
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85% of the matter in our universe is a mystery. We don't know what it's made of, which is why we call it dark matter. But we know it's out there because we can observe its gravitational attraction on galaxies and other celestial objects. We've yet to directly observe dark matter, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the most powerful particle collider in the world. That's the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. So how would that work? In the LHC, two proton beams move in opposite directions and are accelerated to near the speed of light. At four collision points, the beams cross and protons smash into each other. Protons are made of much smaller components called...
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85% of the matter in our universe is a mystery. We don't know what it's made of, which is why we call it dark matter. But we know it's out there because we can observe its gravitational attraction on galaxies and other celestial objects. We've yet to directly observe dark matter, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the most powerful particle collider in the world. That's the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. So how would that work? In the LHC, two proton beams move in opposite directions and are accelerated to near the speed of light. At four collision points, the beams cross and protons smash into each other. Protons are made of much smaller components called...
