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Title:
Antimatter / Frank Close.
Author:
Close, F. E., author.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

©2009
Call Number:
QC173 .C52 2018
Abstract:
"Antimatter is much loved by science fiction writers. Yet it is real: there are looking-glass particles that are counterparts of protons, electrons, and other familiar particles of matter. The Big Bang produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Yet there is very little antimatter in our universe, or at least our part of it. Where has all the antimatter gone? Are there antimatter Universes out there too? In this absorbing exploration of antimatter, its prediction, discovery, and the deep remaining questions that take us to the earliest moments after the Big Bang, Frank Close shows that science is revealing a world far stranger than any science fiction."--Cover.

Antimatter consists of particles that are mirror images of those of matter. And should a particle of antimatter meet its matter counterpart, both are annihilated in a spectacular burst of energy. Science fiction? No, science fact.
Edition:
Second edition.

Second edition, as Oxford Landmark Science 2018. - from title verso.

New updated editon - from cover.
ISBN:
9780198831914
Series:
Oxford landmark science

Oxford landmark science.
Physical Description:
x, 166 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
General Note:
First edition published in 2009.
Contents:
Antimatter: fact or fiction? Did antimatter hit the Earth? ; Powerful antimatter ; Antimatter secrets ; Natural antimatter -- The material world. Matter and antimatter ; Spectra and the quantum electron ; The spinning electron ; E is for Einstein and E = mc² -- Tablets of stone. Paul Dirac ; Two for the price of one ; The infinite sea ; What is this positive electron? -- A cosmic discovery. The discovery of the positron ; Blackett and creation ; Positrons on Earth -- Annihilation. Neither matter nor antimatter ; More antiparticles ; Quarks- and anitquarks ; When Quark meets antiquark -- Storing antimatter. The all-destructive substance ; Storing antiprotons ; The penning trap ; Antiprotons in the trap ; Antihydrogen and the antimatter factory ; LEP -- The mirror universe. Backwards in time? ; The strange behaviour of strange particles ; Don't shake hands with an anti-alien -- Why is there anything at all? The mystery of the missing antimatter ; Replaying the Big Bang ; Neutrinos ; Apocalypse- not quite -- Revelations. Antimatter fiction or factoids ; The power of antimatter ; Antimatter at large ; Fantasies ; antimatter bombs ; Antimatter: to boldly go ; Antimatter: a fiction thought to be fact ; Antimatter fact-ory -- Appendix 1: The cost of antimatter -- Appendix 2: 'The Dirac code."
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