Big Science FM: Antimatter - Fantasy to Reality

from Big Science: What's the Big Idea? From Resonance FM · host Ed Gerstner

By the end of the first quarter of the 20th century, physicists increasingly realized that quantum mechanics provided a powerful means of describing the behaviour of subatomic particles. But until that point it only described slow moving particles. When Paul Dirac combined special relativity with quantum mechanics, he found something even stranger, antimatter!

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