The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (Science Essentials, 9)

Quinn, Helen R., Nir, Yossi

ISBN 10: 0691133093 / ISBN 13: 9780691133096

Editore: Princeton University Press, 2008

Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Codice articolo N02B-04332

Riassunto:

In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang lingers a question at the heart of our very existence: why does the universe contain matter but almost no antimatter? The laws of physics tell us that equal amounts of matter and antimatter were produced in the early universe—but then something odd happened. Matter won out over antimatter; had it not, the universe today would be dark and barren.

But how and when did this occur? In The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter, Helen Quinn and Yossi Nir guide readers into the very heart of this mystery—and along the way offer an exhilarating grand tour of cutting-edge physics.

Informazioni sull'autore: Helen R. Quinn is professor emerita of particle physics and astrophysics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, she is the coauthor of The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics. Yossi Nir is professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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Titolo: The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (...
Casa editrice: Princeton University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good
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