Title: Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe
1Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe
2Who wants to be a millionaire?
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3Contestants
The Leptons Light and electrifying
The quarks Strong and colourful
Quiz master
Rolf Landua CERN
4What is CERN?
5What does C.E.R.N. stand for?
6What are the goals of CERN research?
7Large Hadron Collider
8The 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
9What would happen to this theoretical physicist
if he circulated in the LHC machine with
99.9999999 of the speed of light?
10CERN in 3 minutes
11Particles
128 - Particles
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
What are the smallest building blocks of matter?
13How many different types of matter particles
exist?
148 Particles
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
Why are there so many types of matter particles?
15Forces
16Is the electromagnetic force stronger than
gravitation?
17BUT MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE IS NEUTRAL, because
positive and negative charges cancel each other
precisely. THEREFORE Gravitation is the
dominant force in the Universe
18The Big Bang
19How old is the Universe?
20What did the Big Bang produce during its first
few minutes?
21Antimatter
225 Antimatter
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
Every particle has an anti-particle. Compared
to the particle, the anti-particle has
Electron and Positron
235 Antimatter
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
Where is the largest concentration of antimatter
in the known Universe?
24The disappearance of antimatter in the Universe
Blue Matter particles Red Antimatter
particles Time scale during Big Bang lt 0.000 001
sec
25Space and Time
264 Space and Time
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
How many dimensions has space?
274 Space and Time
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
How does the presence of matter change space and
time?
28Black Holes
293 Black Holes
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How is a black hole formed?
303 Black Holes
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
What happens to John when he falls into a black
hole?
313 Black Holes
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
Black Holes and Vampire Stars
32Dark Matter
332 Dark Matter
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How do we know that Dark Matter must exist?
34How do we know about dark matter
352 Dark Matter
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What is dark matter made of?
36How could we detect dark matter ?
3710 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 .
38The recipe for the Universe
391 Dark Energy
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What is the Universe made of?
401 Dark Energy
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
How do we know about dark energy ?
411 Dark Energy
TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
How will the Universe end?
42TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
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