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HUNTING THE SNARK. “In this picture of quark–antiquark creation by the strong force, the probability distributions as a function of momentum for the presence of up and down antimatter quarks should be nearly identical, given that their masses are very similar and small compared to the mass of the proton.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

PARTICLE MENAGERIE. “The Drell–Yan process in hadron–hadron collisions is a reaction in which a quark and an antiquark annihilate into a virtual photon, and that virtual photon decays into a lepton–antilepton pair.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

NEW CARTOON. “In the early 1990s the New Muon Collaboration (NMC) reported measurements of the deep inelastic structure functions (F2) of hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D).” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

OLD PICTURE. “Several authors assumed that at some low momentum scale the sea quarks and gluons vanish, and at high momentum scales they are all generated by gluon radiation and then gluon splitting. These assumptions were used to describe successfully the existing data in the late 1970s.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

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MEMORY + IMAGINATION. “One might think that remembering the past is merely an act of recall. However, emerging research suggests that memory construction underlies imaginative thinking because humans are not able to “play back” the past like a movie-reel, but instead must cobble together a likely rendering of past events based on educated, imagined guesses.” (Lovely article). https://lnkd.in/dXnTq46Z View in LinkedIn

EARLY CARTOON. “Nevertheless, the initial naive expectation was that the sea was formed predominantly by gluons splitting into quark–antiquark pairs.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

THE CONTRARIAN EXPERIMENTS. “The vast majority of theoretical physicists believe that, if a difference in acceleration between matter and antimatter exists, it can only be extremely small. Few consider possible an antigravity where antihydrogen would “fall up”, as the CERN presents the three current experiments testing the equivalence principle by the ELENA antiproton decelerator.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

EXTRAORDINARY PARALLEL. “We study the Dirac-Milne cosmology, a symmetric matter-antimatter cosmology where antiparticles have the same gravitational properties as holes in a semiconductor.” (Macro to micro). https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

LOST IN THE SHUFFLE. “Einstein's view was supported by Lorentz and Eddington, but did not attract widespread attention.” https://lnkd.in/dATr5iE7 View in LinkedIn