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ISBN Number:

9781581126457
Subtitle: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universe
Written by: Foot, Robert
Published by: Universal Publishers
Location: Parkland, Fla.
Subject: Physics
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Antimatter
Subject: Mirror symmetry.
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references.
Series Volume: M/S pt. 4
Date of Publication: February 2002
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 252
Book Size: 854x546x64 71

Nearly 50 years ago it was discovered that the fundamental particles, such as the electron and proton, have left-handed' interactions - they do not respect mirror symmetry. This experimental fact motivates the idea that a set of mirror particles' exist. The left-handedness of the ordinary particles can then be balanced by the right-handedness of the mirror particles. In this way mirror reflection symmetry can exist but requires something profoundly new. It requires the existence of a completely new form of matter called mirror matter'. Remarkably the mirror matter theory is capable of simply explaining a large number of contemporary puzzles in astrophysics and particle physics. The evidence ranges from observations suggesting that most of the matter in the Universe is invisible, to unexpected properties of ghostly particles called neutrinos'. This book explains this fascinating theory and its evidence at a level accessible to the non-specialist.

Shadowlands: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universe
by Robert Foot
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$33.75
on 10-15-2008

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