Antimatter

Antimatter is much loved by science fiction writers. Yet it is real: there are looking-glass particles that are counterparts of protons, electrons, and other familiar particles of matter. The Big Bang produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Yet there is very little antimatter in our Universe, or at least our part of it. Where did all the antimatter go? Are there antimatter Universes out there too? In this absorbing exploration of antimatter, its prediction, discovery, and the deep remaining questions that take us to the earliest moments after the Big Bang, Frank Close shows that science is revealing a world far stranger than any science fiction. Endnotes, Index. Illus. 166p.