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Public Lecture: Antimatter Gravity,Creating an Antimatter Gravity Interferometer

  • March 24, 2015
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • IIT University Tech Park Atrium, Chicago

While physicists' understanding of the gravitational attraction between matter particles has a long history of experience and experiment behind it, the gravitational force between matter and antimatter has yet to be measured. Efforts to make such measurements are now under way in various labs around the world. 

 

A few theorists have considered the surprising idea that matter and antimatter might repel one another.  If this is the case, it suggests the standard cosmology could be altered. It might then be possible to explain observations in astronomy without the need for dark matter and dark energy.

 

Many projects studying this phenomenon are underway at major research institutions - CERN's ALPHA project, for instance.


This lecture will be delivered by Dr. Thomas J. Phillips.  Prof. Phillips is an experimental high-energy physicist who has worked on several major experiments such as CDF, where he helped find evidence for the Higgs boson.  He was the founder and spokesperson for the Antimatter Gravity Experiment (AGE).  Prof. Phillips is an affiliate of the Physics Department Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

This event is hosted by an Interprofessional Project (IPRO) at the Illinois Institute of Technology.  An IPRO is a course which combines relevant disciplines to solve some problem.  In this case, the task is to build an antimatter gravity interferometer.  Dr. Phillips' research has been central to the design of the device in progress, and the IPRO is excited to facilitate bringing his work to the community through this lecture. 



This lecture is approachable for all audiences - a background in physics is not necessary.


Click here for complete details.

 


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