Particle physics explained in 60 second bursts of words at Symmetry Magazine published by Fermi Lab and SLAC.
I find this picture simple and utterly fascinating. It's an artistic rendering of the tracks of an electron and it's anti-particle as they dance in an electromagnetic field. Positron, electron's anti-particle, came out of Dirac's beautiful equation before it was found in a particle accelerator.
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“If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.” -Dan Brown
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” –Georgia O’Keeffe
Yesterday, I wrote to you about part 5 of The Greatest Story Ever Told, about how the Universe came to have more matter than antimatter in it.
"Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call 'existence.' Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right?