3,5!!

Super repetitive, often digressed from the subject matter

A really good book that describes antimatter and the problems involved with any actual applications of it in a well laid out manner that makes it easy to understand. Seems to have been written as a response to [b:Angels & Demons|960|Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)|Dan Brown|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1303390735s/960.jpg|3338963].
I also really liked the cloud chamber cover!

Nice explanation of some of the science behind Antimatter.

A really fun read! Everything you'd want to know about Antimatter!

Frank Close is Professor of Physics at Oxford University, a Fellow of Exeter College, and has written a number of books, including Lucifer’s Legacy and The Void; so he really knows a thing or two about relativity, quantum theory, and more importantly, antimatter. Close says he wrote the book after a BBC Radio 4 discussion in 2007 that sparked a lot of emails and questions concerning antimatter and its possible power, especially when considered in the hands of the US military or perhaps a terrorist organization. Coupled with this is the new movie of Angels & Demons, based on the Dan Brown book, involving an antimatter bomb secreted beneath the Vatican.

In Antimatter Close does his best to dispel this notion of antimatter being something that can be easily made and used for devastation. He takes readers on a history lesson into the discovery of antimatter, as well as explaining how it was physically found from a mathematical point of view. This book is not for those who don’t have a solid grasp of mathematics, otherwise readers will get lost in the jargon and mental loops and whirls. But for those who know math and want some questions answered about this relatively new and certainly misunderstood “matter,” Antimatter is a short and perfect book for this.

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