duality? what is that ? and is it posible to create antimatter as decribed in the Book angels& demons?

Question

..by Dan Brown a really almost accurate researched and well wriiten novel is there truth and why has it not been done?

Answer 1

Duality is the quantum theory which states that all forces in the universe will exhibit the properties of both particles and waves.

Antimatter is something that really does exist, though it can only be created in a laboratory one particle at a time. Antimatter is matter that is composed of antiparticles. For instance, whereas an atom of hydrogen is an electron orbiting a proton, at atom of anti-hydrogen is composed of a positron orbiting an antiproton. Matter and antimatter will annihilate if they come into contact with each other, releasing photons.

Answer 2

Cirric got it right. Duality is when matter can be both in particle form or wave form, which was greatly disputed by physicists for a very long time. How could it be both? Light, especially, was argued whether it is particulate or wave. They *have* proved duality in a sense. There's a bit more to it.

As fun as fiction is, that's just what Angels&Deamons is...fiction. If you're truly interested in theories such as Duality and antimatter, read a scientific journal or do some online seraching. It's fun, I promise, and rewarding when you can convey something you learned to your friends. LOL.

We also know that dark matter exists; mysterious!

Answer 3

Duality refers to the wave particle duality of everything in the universe.

Antimatter is created trillions of times a second all around us. The phenomenon is called vacuum fluctuations (similar to pair production). pairs of particle/anti particle spontaneous appear out of noting and then annihilate in less then a femto sec.

No Dan Browns Novel is rather far fetched. The problem with Anti matter is that it can never be made stable for any duration! By its definition it has opposite in energy and mass of regular matter and consequently annihilates with it.

Answer 4

Hi. Duality is the concept that small particles can behave as both a wave and a particle. This has been demonstrated many times using slits to pass photons. I never read Angels & Demons but I absolutely LOVED the book's logo!

Answer 5

Never heard of Dan Brown; he sounds like a fiction writer. Antimatter is created very routinely in nuclear colliders.

Answer 6

I am a physicist who has read "Angels & Demons". I enjoyed the book, but he got a lot of the physics wrong. For example, anti-matter, by itself, is not inherently unstable. It is perfectly safe as long as there is no matter around...which is almost impossible.

Which brings us to his battery powered anti-matter containment system. He glossed over this, but every physicist I know would love to see the magnetic fields that could pull this feat off!

He also is way off on the portrayal of physicists and CERN, but that is another matter.

Answer 7

Corresponding to most kinds of particle, there is an associated antiparticle with the same mass and opposite charges. (The exceptions are massless gauge bosons such as the photon and the graviton.) Even electrically neutral particles, such as the neutron, are not identical to their antiparticle. In the example of the neutron, the 'ordinary' particle is made out of quarks and the antiparticle out of antiquarks. The laws of nature were thought to be symmetric between particles and antiparticles until CP violation experiments found that time-reversal symmetry is violated in nature. This small asymmetry is involved in baryogenesis, the process by which our universe came to consist almost entirely of matter, with almost no free antimatter.

Particle-antiparticle pairs can annihilate each other if they are in appropriate quantum states. They can also be produced in various processes. These processes are used in today's particle accelerators to create new particles and to test theories of particle physics. High energy processes in nature can create antiparticles. These are visible in cosmic rays and in certain nuclear reactions. The word antimatter properly refers to (elementary) antiparticles, composite antiparticles made with them (such as antihydrogen) and to larger assemblies of either.

In physics and chemistry, wave-particle duality is a conceptualization that all objects in our universe exhibit properties of both waves and of particles. A central concept of quantum mechanics, duality addresses the inadequacy of conventional concepts like "particle" and "wave" to fully describe the behaviour of quantum objects. The idea of duality is rooted in a debate over the nature of light and matter dating back to the 1600s, when competing theories of light were proposed by Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton. Through the work of Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie and many others, current scientific theory holds that all objects have both wave and particle nature (though this phenomenon is only detectable on small scales, such as with atoms), and that a suitable interpretation of quantum mechanics provides the over-arching theory resolving this ostensible paradox.