The Strange World of Antimatter

William A. Isaacs
Nov 4 · 7 min read

The early twentieth century was an exciting time to be in physics. The staid and predictable world of Newton’s physics had just been overthrown by two new ideas — relativity and quantum mechanics. Physicists were busy sketching out the new theories, discovering new laws of reality, and getting famous doing it. As experiments probing the new world of physics revealed bizarre and almost unbelievable phenomena, the universe was revealed to be far stranger than anyone could have imagined.

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William A. Isaacs

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Space and astronomy enthusiast. Traveller, writer, photographer.

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