Posted on 08/03/08
The deep, dark heart of the antimatter
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING ANTIMATTERBy Helen R. Quinn and Yossi NirPrinceton University Press,292 pages, $29.95A few years back, I was with a group of Cambridge University particle physicists, astronomers and students in the back garden of a pub on a warm summer night, sipping pints of good British ale and debating the next big breakthrough in physics. Since some of us had just returned from CERN, the giant particle accelerator that straddles the border between Switzerland and France, the implications of discovering new particles was very much on our minds.
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