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New updated edition, Second edition. |
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1 online resource (x, 166 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Antimatter; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; ForewordGenesis; Genesis; 1. ANTIMATTER: FACT OR FICTION?'; Did Antimatter Hit the Earth?; Powerful Antimatter; Antimatter Secrets; Natural Antimatter; 2. THE MATERIAL WORLD; Matter and Antimatter; Spectra and the Quantum Electron; The Spinning Electron; E is for Einstein and E = mc2; 3. TABLETS OF STONE; Paul Dirac; Two for the Price of One; The Infinite Sea; What is this Positive Electron?; 4. A COSMIC DISCOVERY; The Discovery of the Positron; Blackett and Creation; Positrons on Earth; 5. ANNIHILATION; Neither Matter nor Antim. |
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More AntiparticlesQuarks-and Antiquarks; When Quark Meets Antiquark; 6. STORING ANTIMATTER; The All-Destructive Substance; Storing Antiprotons; The Penning Trap; Antiprotons in the Trap; Antihydrogen and the Antimatter Factory; LEP; 7. THE MIRROR UNIVERSE; Backwards in Time?; The Strange Behaviour of Strange Particles; Don't Shake Hands with an Anti-alien; 8. WHY IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL?; The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter; Replaying the Big Bang; Neutrinos; Apocalypse-not Quite; 9. REVELATIONS; Antimatter Fictions and Factoids; The Power of Antimatter; Antimatter at Large. |
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Fantasies: Antimatter BombsAntimatter: To Boldly Go; Antimatter: A Fiction Thought to be Fact; Antimatter Fact-ory; Appendix 1: The Cost of Antimatter; Appendix 2: 'The Dirac Code'; How Matrices Solve Dirac's Problem; Negative Energy; Dirac's Gamma Matrices Displayed; Endnotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Frank Close explores the strange mirror world of antimatter, revealing that reality is even more fascinating than the sci-fi stories suggest. Explaining the science behind one of physics' most extraordinary discoveries, he shows how, through understanding antimatter, we can shed light on some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antimatter.
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Antimatter. |
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Physics.
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Physics. |
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physics. |
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SCIENCE -- Energy. |
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General. |
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Close, F.E. Antimatter. New updated edition, Second edition. Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2018 0198831919 9780198831914 (OCoLC)1037062597 |
| ISBN |
9780192567864 (electronic book) |
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0192567861 (electronic book) |
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9780192567871 (electronic book) |
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019256787X (electronic book) |
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9780198831914 |
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0198831919 |
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