Antimatter

The Ultimate Mirror

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Hardcover | 17 July 2000

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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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'I read Gordon Fraser's new book, Antimatter: the Ultimate Mirror, with awe and envy ... [he] has done an excellent job in making the arcane accessible, in a style that suggests adventure novel rather than dry scientific text. If more scientists could write like this, I dare say more would be understandable.' David Myton, Education Review 'Antimatter is the fuel of science fiction, propelling, for example, Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise, but its study is also a burgeoning branch of modern science. Fraser, a physicist at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, here offers a thoughtful, no-nonsense account of the strange world of antimatter ... Written for the serious layperson, Fraser's absorbing narrative ... imparts a keen sense of the colorful personalities involved, and of their thought processes and discoveries, without ever introducing maths or burdensome technical detail.' Publishers Weekly '... a superb review on the prediction and discovery of antimatter ... this is a great 'must read' book.' Stuart Tovey, The Physicist 'This book introduced the Lewis Carroll world of antimatter ... this is a fast-paced and lucid account of how science fiction became fact.' Physics Courier

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Popular Science Physics Materials & States of Matter Nuclear Physics

Preface	p. vii
Science fiction becomes science fact	p. 1
Mirror worlds	p. 13
An imbalanced kit of electrical parts	p. 27
The quantum master	p. 45
Positive proof	p. 65
The back passage of time	p. 77
The quark and the antiquark	p. 95
Broken mirrors	p. 109
The cosmic cork-screw	p. 127
Antiparticle collision course	p. 141
Setting a trap for antimatter	p. 157
Glue versus antichemistry	p. 171
Antimatter in action	p. 181
Antimatter of the utmost gravity	p. 195
Names index	p. 209
Subject index	p. 211
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