Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe

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Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe
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Contestants
The Leptons Light and electrifying
The quarks Strong and colourful
Quiz master
Rolf Landua CERN
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What is CERN?
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What does C.E.R.N. stand for?
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What are the goals of CERN research?
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Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider accelerates 31014
protons (0.5 ng, small grain of dust) to
99.99999999 of the speed of light. What does
the energy of the proton beams correspond to
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What would happen to this theoretical physicist
if he circulated in the LHC machine with
99.9999999 of the speed of light?
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CERN in 3 minutes
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Particles
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8 - Particles
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What are the smallest building blocks of matter?
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How many different types of matter particles
exist?
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8 Particles
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Why are there so many types of matter particles?
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Forces
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Is the electromagnetic force stronger than
gravitation?
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BUT MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE IS NEUTRAL, because
positive and negative charges cancel each other
precisely. THEREFORE Gravitation is the
dominant force in the Universe
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The Big Bang
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How old is the Universe?
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What did the Big Bang produce during its first
few minutes?
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Antimatter
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5 Antimatter
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Every particle has an anti-particle. Compared
to the particle, the anti-particle has
Electron and Positron
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5 Antimatter
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Where is the largest concentration of antimatter
in the known Universe?
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The disappearance of antimatter in the Universe
Blue Matter particles Red Antimatter
particles Time scale during Big Bang lt 0.000 001
sec
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Space and Time
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4 Space and Time
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How many dimensions has space?
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4 Space and Time
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How does the presence of matter change space and
time?
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Black Holes
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3 Black Holes
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How is a black hole formed?
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3 Black Holes
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What happens to John when he falls into a black
hole?
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3 Black Holes
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Black Holes and Vampire Stars
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Dark Matter
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2 Dark Matter
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How do we know that Dark Matter must exist?
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How do we know about dark matter
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2 Dark Matter
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What is dark matter made of?
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How could we detect dark matter ?
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10 What does CERN do?
9 What does the Large Hadron Collider do?
8 Why so many particles?
7 Why are the strengths of forces so different?
6 What happened in the Big Bang?
5 Where is the Antimatter?
4 How many dimensions of Space?
3 What happens in a Black Hole?
2 What is Dark Matter ?
And the Top Mystery is .
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The recipe for the Universe
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1 Dark Energy
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What is the Universe made of?
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1 Dark Energy
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How do we know about dark energy ?
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1 Dark Energy
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How will the Universe end?
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TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
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