Bob Berman's strange universe: Annihilate this
March 2005: If antimatter didn't exist, someone would have to make it up — it's that juicy.
Contributed by Bob Berman
Published:
March 1, 2005
| If antimatter didn't exist, someone would have to make it up — it's that juicy. Predicted by the brilliant physicist Paul Dirac in 1928 — and first found by Carl D. Anderson of Caltech in 1935 — antimatter looks, smells, and acts exactly like ordinary matter. But let it touch anything, and both vanish in a maximum-energy explosion. |
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