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Antimatter /
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2018.
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| Edición: | New updated edition, Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.