Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Anna Chazinski, and Andy Murray,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay, my fact this week is that bananas emit antimatter.
That's nuts, so I've had to get my head round antimatter, which...
I just researched bananas.
I should have gone down that road.
What am I doing?
So, an anti-matter is just like the opposite of matter, so if you have an electron with a negative charge,
then the antimatter version of that is a positron, which has a positive charge.
I know, see, what's weird is I just, for me, I still don't understand what that means.
It means that when you say you had to get your head round it,
if you'd actually had to put your head round antimatter, your head would no longer exist.
Wait, antimatter.
Antimatter.
That was some kind of Freudian slip, the presence of Andy in a room eliminates everything else in it.
So wait, so what I read was the beginning of the universe, big explosion,