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Antimatter (2009)

by Frank Close(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0199550166 (ISBN13: 9780199550166)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: Pop culture uses a lot of science buzzwords that it doesn't well understand. Words like "quantum mechanics", "relativity" and "antimatter" get thrown around all the time in books, action movies, and science fiction with very little awareness of their reality. Though it is a great way to introduce people to science, but leads to misunderstanding, and even fear. I'm glad Close wrote this nifty little book to help fix some of these . In this short volume, (yes another one, I know), "Antimatter" looks at the history and science of these strange particles that are annihilated by their matter counterparts. Reviewing the history of antimatter from Dirac's early theorizing of their existence to modern research in laboratories worldwide, Close's accessible writing lets you understa... morend much of the dark matter(tee-hee) surrounding not only antimatter, but subatomic physics as a whole. He also examines claims of a lump of antimatter hitting Tunguska, Russia in 1908, as well as the economic feasibility of antimatter propulsion and weaponry. Close's chapter on matrices was a bit clunky, but the rest of the book was easy to comprehend. If you have a couple hours to kill, and want to know about subatomic physics, this is a really great read.
review 2: It explained a few things that I had been wondering about and a few things that I still don't get. There were a times when I was in the midst of reading and realized that I had understood the last 5 pages. So I had to fip back to see if it was because I had zoned out or because I actually didn't understand. Most of the time I didn't actually understand.However, the parts I did understand, I found fairly engaging. less

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