Antimatter
Subject in Physics
Antimatter has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Don LincolnParticle physicist at Fermilab, author and science communicator
Lincoln says antimatter propulsion is an engineering rather than physics problem and that he would be shocked by a theoretical advance making production easier.
“I would be shocked if there was some new addition to the theory that made antimatter production easier”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:10:37
Lincoln calculates that Fermilab's antiproton production rate would require about a billion years to make a single gram of antimatter.
“So that means at that rate, with that facility, it would take a billion years running with very little downtime to make a single gram of antimatter”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:03:57
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don LincolnLex Fridman Podcast · May 29, 2026 · 3 h 2 min
Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln talks with Lex Fridman about unification in physics, the Higgs boson, string theory, antimatter, dark energy, and dark matter.