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PBS Space Time
Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something than Nothing
Season 6
Episode 22
The most precious substance in our universe is not gold, nor oil. It’s not even printer ink. It’s antimatter. But it’s worth every penny of it’s very high cost, because it may hold the answer to the question of why anything exists in our universe at all.
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