Antimatter : The Ultimate Mirror

Name: Antimatter
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521893091
Price: 6850 KES
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ISBN: 9780521893091

by Gordon Fraser

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521893097

ISBN-13 9780521893091

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 7th, 2002

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 332 grams

Dimensions 23.20 x 16.80 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: Popular science Materials / States of matter

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This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the antimatter debris of collisions provided new clues on its properties.

In 1928 the physicist Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter in a mirror world, where the electrical charges on particles would be opposite to those of ordinary matter. This mirror world is found, fleetingly, at the quantum level, with positrons the counterpart of electrons, and antiprotons the opposite of protons. This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the antimatter debris of collisions provided new clues on its properties. This is a fast-paced and lucid account of how science fiction became fact.

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