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ANTIMATTER

From Quantum Origins to Cosmic Frontiers

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ANTIMATTER

By: Boris Kriger
Narrated by: Tara Cuvelier
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This book traces antimatter from its theoretical origins to its roles in cosmic evolution, laboratory precision, and emerging technology. It follows its perfect symmetry with matter, its fleeting appearances in stellar cores, cosmic rays, and particle accelerators, and its central place in the laws of conservation that govern change. The narrative moves through the early universe, where matter’s survival hinged on an infinitesimal asymmetry, and into present-day experiments testing antimatter’s spectra, magnetic properties, and response to gravity. It considers its astrophysical implications, from hidden antigalaxies to positron excesses in cosmic rays, and its practical uses in medicine, materials science, and speculative propulsion. Alongside established knowledge, it examines competing theories on baryon asymmetry, the limits of containment and production, and the future of antimatter research in probing the boundaries of the Standard Model. Through this, antimatter emerges not as an exotic curiosity, but as a structural element of reality—both a mirror and a measure of the universe’s deepest symmetries.

©2025 Boris Kriger (P)2025 Boris Kriger
Astronomy & Space Science Cosmology Physics Science
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