Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521652529 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.
Written for the serious layperson, Fraser's absorbing narrative retraces the effort to unravel the structure of subatomic matterAand antimatterAfrom Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac to Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann; he imparts a keen sense of the colorful personalities involved, and of their thought processes and discoveries, without ever introducing math or burdensome technical detail. Antiparticles, once a laboratory curiosity, have become a frontline research tool used in the discovery of new particles, in particle-antiparticle collision experiments that generate temperatures almost as hot as the Big Bang, and in PET (positron emission tomography) scans in medicine, brain research and materials science. Scenarios of an as-yet-undiscovered antimatter universe that mirrors ours don't hold up to current scien
Interesting and informative I picked up this book at Tokyo University, and read it on the flight home to Portland, Oregon. It's the sort of book you can read on the airplane - not too mentally exhausting, but not the sort of reading that leaves you feeling guilty about wasting your time, like you might after watching the movie.Fraser's book is primarily a history of the science of antimatter, from its prediction by Dirac to the discovery of the positron by Carl Anderson and the fabrication of the first atoms of chemical antimatter by Walter Oelert's team at CERN. The book is also. Science Is Approaching Science Fictions Tatsuo Tabata Antimatter often appears in science fictions. In Gregory Benford's "Eater," for example, a robot made by magnetic copying of the heroine flies to the black hole Eater on a spaceship, carrying an antimatter bomb to change the course of Eater and to prevent its collision with the Earth. In reality, antimatter does not exist naturally on the Earth. Nor has it ever been made in a large quantity in the laboratory.In 1996 Walter Oelert and coworkers at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva produced antihydrogen atoms, the first-step t. A pleasant breeze into the concept and history of antimatter I was embarrassed to find out what "bretk" has written about this book, and the author's rebuttal is just a too decent one! It seems to me that "bretk" has never had any direct relation or connection with theoretical physics. The book is indeed an excellent one, on the subject, and it must be said that, in fundamental physics, how someone found something, including biographical details, is as important as what he found! There aren't many true discoverers in theoretical physics, and most of those which existed in the last century usually got the Nobel p
He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Science Communication at several universities. . Gordon Fraser works at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, where he is Editor of CERN Courier, a monthly magazine covering all aspects of particle physics