Mass & Matter

Mass & Matter — page 3 — Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Blue Design Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Dreamstime Andreus Yap Kee Chan Vladimir Mucibabic Naluphoto Getty Images APIC ChinaFotoPress FABRICE COFFRINI AFP De Agostini Dorling Kindersley Hulton Archive Keystone-France Gamma-Keystone Library of Congress SSPL Time Life Pictures Mansell Time Life Pictures iStockphoto Cheryl Graham Jaap Hart Henrik Jonsson NASA NASA NASA ESA M J Jee H Ford et al Johns Hopkins Univ NASA JPL Space Science Institute NASA SDO AIA Cover and folio illustration 2011 Alex Ryan Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whiting Jim Mass and matter by Jim Whiting p cm Mysteries of the universe Includes bibliographical references and index Summary An examination of the science behind the physical concepts of mass and matter including relevant theories and history-making discoveries as well as topics of current and future research ISBN 978-1-60818-191-9 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-141-2 eBook 1 Atomic mass Juvenile literature 2 Dark matter Astronomy Juvenile literature 3 Missing mass Astronomy Juvenile literature 4 Dark energy Astronomy Juvenile literature I Title QC173 16 W56 2012 531 14 dc23 2011040145 First Edition 987654321

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Mass & Matter — page 5 — British physicist James Chadwick discoverer of the neutron

Mass & Matter — page 6 — TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTERS MATTER MATTERS 10 THE STRUCTURE OF THINGS 17 REVIVING THE ATOM 29 ANTIMATTER AND DARK MATTER 37 MATTER ASIDES MEASURING EARTH’S MASS 21 BLOWING UP THE VATICAN 27 DEALING WITH DARK MATTERS 41 AROUND AND AROUND WE GO 44 ENDNOTES 46 WEB SITES 47 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 47 INDEX 48

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