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MATTER, DARK MATTER, AND ANTI-MATTER
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| By: |
Alain Mazure, Vincent le Brun |
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Paperback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441988211 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441988218 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
17 November, 2011 |
| Edition: |
2012 |
| Series: |
Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy |
| Pages: |
172 |
| Description: |
This book presents the inventory of matter, baryonic and exotic, and investigates the nature and fate of matter's twin, anti-matter. The authors show how basic research, in tandem with the evolution of new ideas, could help science lift the cosmic veil. |
| Synopsis: |
For over ten years, the dark side of the universe has been headline news. Detailed studies of the rotation of spiral galaxies, and 'mirages' created by clusters of galaxies bending the light from very remote objects, have convinced astronomers of the presence of large quantities of dark (unseen) matter in the cosmos. The most striking fact is that they seem to compromise about 95 per cent of the matter/energy content of the universe. As for ordinary matter, although we are immersed in a sea of dark particles, including primordial neutrinos and photons from fossil cosmological radiation, both we and our environment are made of ordinary, 'baryonic' matter. Authors Mazure and Le Brun present the inventory of matter, baryonic and exotic, and investigating the nature and fate of matter's twin, anti-matter. They show how technological progress has been a result of basic research, in tandem with the evolution of new ideas, and how the combined effect of these advances might help lift the cosmic veil. |
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20 black & white illustrations, 61 colour illustrations, biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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