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Matter, Anti-Matter, and Cosmic Symmetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Oliver L. Reiser*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © 1957, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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References

1 Cf. “Speculations on Cosmogony,” by M. Goldhaber, Science, Vol. 124, 1956, 218–219.

2 Cf. “The Evolution of Cosmologies,” by O. L. Reiser, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 19, 1952, 93–107; and “The Field Theory of Matter in a Pantheistic Cosmology,” by O. L. Reiser, Scientia, Vol. 89, 1954, Nos. 7 and 8 (211–218 and 251–259).

3 Cf. “Synthesis of Elements in the Stars,” by William A. Fowler, Science, Vol. 122, 1955, p. 875.

4 Cf. “The Origin of the Elements in the Stars,” by F. Hoyle, William A. Fowler, G. R. Burbidge, E. M. Burbidge, Science, Vol. 124, 1956, 611–614.

5 Cf. “The Supergalaxy,” by Gerard de Voucouleurs, Scientific American, Vol. 141, 1954 (July), 30–35.

6 For the references to Dirac's several statements, including also a survey of the problems in this area, see the article, “Space, Field, and Ether in Contemporary Physics,” by Alexander Stern, Science, Vol. 116, 1952, 493–496. See also, “The Meaning of ‘Elementary Particle,’” by Henry Margenau, American Scientist, Vol. 39, 1951, 422–431; and “Quantum Electrodynamics,” by F. J. Dyson, Physics Today, Vol. 5, 1952, 6–9.

7 On this problem see, “Attempts at a Unified Theory of Elementary Particles,” by Hideki Yukawa, Science, Vol. 121, 1955, 405–408.

8 Cf. “The Probable Acts of Men: The Momental Growth Models for Predicting Mass Behavior,” by Stuart Carter Dodd, read at the Detroit ASS meetings, September, 1956 (unpublished).