Effzett: Why is Nothing not Nothing?

Jülich, May 2015 – The central theme of the current issue of effzett is one of the greatest mysteries in the field of physics. The focus is on the question why matter and antimatter did not annihilate each other right after the Big Bang. One possible explanation is that somewhere in the far reaches of the universe – still undiscovered – the same quantity of antimatter exists. This is what the accepted laws of physics postulate. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS) is searching for traces of this antimatter in outer space and will continue to do so until at least 2020. However, Jülich researchers are also considering a second possibility that our knowledge of the accepted laws of physics is incomplete and must be extended.

The other articles in this issue feature, among others, the question of how rewards can help children and teenagers with ADHD, what biochemical processes occur in plants when they react to stress factors such as light or pathogens, and how one Jülich PhD student shows high precision in moving individual molecules.

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