Mick said: “So lately I have been thinking, when I die, those songs die with me. By now, he has around thirty songs in his head. The only downside of that, is that he writes too many songs. He mentioned that every record he makes, he has a certain theme. Mick used a tambourine on his foot and on the floor, there were some bells.Īfter a couple of songs, Mick gave us a little bit of an insight about how he works. The lights were dimmed and the first song that was played was “Leaving Eden.” Since there were only the two of them, they had to make use of a loop board and more smart ways to get as many little effects in. For this tour, he is joined only by a guitarist Dave Hall. Nowadays, it’s a solo project of only Mick Moss, where he is assisted by different artists on tour. Originally Antimatter was a duo, consisting of founding members Duncan Patterson and Mick Moss. Only a few band shirts were to be seen, which is quite a change from the concerts I normally attend. Entering the building, I did not burst in flames weirdly enough, but I did see a nice mixture of people in the audience sitting in the church benches. With that in mind, I made the two-hour trip down to Venlo, my anticipation brimming.Īrriving at Venlo, I walked a nice circle around the church, as I apparently chose to take the long road towards the entrance. Immediately this gave me flashbacks to the very special Katatonia show, “ Sanctitude” and the show I attended of Orphaned Land in the MerkAz in Utrecht, a Synagogue. Even though their show on the 1 st of May would have been much closer for me, the show in Venlo had something special, it was to be held in a church! But tonight’s concert promised to have such a unique atmosphere, that I just had to attend.įor their 20 th anniversary tour, Antimatter had two shows scheduled in The Netherlands. It’s not that often that I take a two-hour one-way trip to see a band. Studying this imbalance could help scientists paint a clearer picture of why our universe is matter-filled.Sint Joriskerk, Venlo, Netherlands on the 29 th of April 2022 Physicists may find hints as to what this process might be by studying the subtle differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles created in high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. In the same way, some unknown mechanism could have interfered with the oscillating particles to cause a slight majority of them to decay as matter. However, if a special kind of marble rolled across a table of spinning coins and caused every coin it hit to land on its head, it would disrupt the whole system. In the same way, half of the oscillating particles in the early universe should have decayed as matter and the other half as antimatter. A coin has a 50-50 chance of landing on its head or its tail, so if enough coins are spun in exactly the same way, half should land on heads and the other half on tails. It can land on its heads or its tails, but it cannot be defined as "heads" or "tails" until it stops spinning and falls to one side. Some unknown entity intervening in this process in the early universe could have caused these "oscillating" particles to decay as matter more often than they decayed as antimatter.Ĭonsider a coin spinning on a table. Researchers have observed spontaneous transformations between particles and their antiparticles, occurring millions of times per second before they decay. Physicists are keen to discover the reasons why. In the past few decades, particle-physics experiments have shown that the laws of nature do not apply equally to matter and antimatter. Nevertheless, a tiny portion of matter – about one particle per billion – managed to survive. If matter and antimatter are created and destroyed together, it seems the universe should contain nothing but leftover energy. During the first fractions of a second of the Big Bang, the hot and dense universe was buzzing with particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existence. Matter and antimatter particles are always produced as a pair and, if they come in contact, annihilate one another, leaving behind pure energy. The positively charged positron, for example, is the antiparticle to the negatively charged electron. One of the greatest challenges in physics is to figure out what happened to the antimatter, or why we see an asymmetry between matter and antimatter.Īntimatter particles share the same mass as their matter counterparts, but qualities such as electric charge are opposite. Something must have happened to tip the balance. Comparatively, there is not much antimatter to be found. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made almost entirely of matter. The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe.
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