Antimatter:
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.
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | X, 166 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780199578870 9780199550166 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword
χ
1.
ANTIMATTER: FACTOR FICTION?
1
Did Antimatter Hit the Earth?
4
Powerful Antimatter
7
Antimatter Secrets
9
Natural Antimatter
11
2.
THE MATERIAL WORLD
15
Matter and Antimatter
17
Spectra and the Quantum Electron
20
The Spinning Electron
25
£
is for Einstein and
E
=
mc2
26
3.
TABLETS OF STONE
32
Paul Dirac
32
Two for the Price of One
36
The Infinite Sea 41
What is this Positive Electron?
44
4.
A COSMIC DISCOVERY
49
The Discovery of the Positron
50
Blackett and Creation 56
Positrons on Earth
59
vu
CONTENTS
5. ANNIHILATION
64
Neither
Matter
nor Antimatter
64
More Antiparticles
69
Quarks—and Antiquarks
73
When Quark Meets
Antiquark
77
6.
STORING ANTIMATTER
80
The All-Destructive Substance
80
Storing
Antiprotons
84
The Penning Trap
87
Antiprotons
in the Trap
90
Antihydrogen and the Antimatter Factory
93
LEP
95
7.
THE MIRROR UNIVERSE
101
Backwards in Time?
101
The Strange Behaviour of Strange Particles
106
Don t Shake Hands with an Anti-alien
110
8.
WHY IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL?
113
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
113
Replaying the Big Bang
119
Neutrinos
121
Apocalypse—not Quite
126
9.
REVELATIONS
128
Antimatter Fictions and Factoids
128
The Power of Antimatter
133
Antimatter at Large
134
Fantasies: Antimatter Bombs
137
Antimatter: To Boldly Go
140
Antimatter: A Fiction Thought to be Fact
143
Antimatter Factory
147
VUl
CONTENTS
APPENDIX
1 :
THE COST OF ANTIMATTER
149
APPENDIX
2:
THE DIRACCODE
152
Endnotes 158
Bibliography
160
Index
161
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