Particle Man / Andrew Lawler.
by Lawler, Andrew; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 49Science. Publisher: Lawler/Andrew, 2001ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Antimatter | Astrophysics | Magnetic spectrometer | Physics -- ResearchDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Sam Ting is on a mission: Find the other half of the universe....Ting's plan is to attach a massive magnet called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the outside of the International Space Station, where he hopes it will attract passing bits of anti-matter--particles with an electrical charge opposite that of ordinary matter. If such anti-atoms exist and can be captured, the finding would solve one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology--namely what happened to all the anti-matter that should have been created in equal parts with matter at the time of the Big Bang." (AIR & SPACE) This article briefly reviews attempts to find anti-matter on Earth and examines plans to search for anti-matter particles in space.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Particle Man, April/May 2001; pp. 64-69.
"Sam Ting is on a mission: Find the other half of the universe....Ting's plan is to attach a massive magnet called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the outside of the International Space Station, where he hopes it will attract passing bits of anti-matter--particles with an electrical charge opposite that of ordinary matter. If such anti-atoms exist and can be captured, the finding would solve one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology--namely what happened to all the anti-matter that should have been created in equal parts with matter at the time of the Big Bang." (AIR & SPACE) This article briefly reviews attempts to find anti-matter on Earth and examines plans to search for anti-matter particles in space.
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