“The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. © Vintage, 2015. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Physicists began speculating in the late 19th century that there may exist particles and matter that are exact opposites of the matter that surrounds us, mirror-image anti-atoms and perhaps even whole anti-solar systems where matter and antimatter might meet and annihilate one another. But on this day in 1932, American physicist Carl Anderson discovered the first physical evidence that antimatter was more than just an idea.
TWA from Wednesday, August 2, 2017
TWA from Wednesday, August 2, 2017
TWA from Wednesday, August 2, 2017
“The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. © Vintage, 2015. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Physicists began speculating in the late 19th century that there may exist particles and matter that are exact opposites of the matter that surrounds us, mirror-image anti-atoms and perhaps even whole anti-solar systems where matter and antimatter might meet and annihilate one another. But on this day in 1932, American physicist Carl Anderson discovered the first physical evidence that antimatter was more than just an idea.