Isodual Theory of Antimatter : with applications to Antigravity,
Grand Unification and Cosmology (Fundamental Theories of Physics) by
Ruggero Maria Santilli, $169.00 at amazon.com (Hardcover) Not yet
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Book Description
Antimatter, already conjectured by A. Schuster in 1898, was actually
predicted by P.A.M. Dirac in the late 19-twenties in the negative-
energy solutions of the Dirac equation. Its existence was
subsequently confirmed via the Wilson chamber and became an
established part of theoretical physics. Dirac soon discovered that
particles with negative energy do not behave in a physically
conventional manner, and he therefore developed his "hole theory".
This restricted the study of antimatter to the sole level of second
quantization. As a result antimatter created a scientific imbalance,
because matter was treated at all levels of study, while antimatter
was treated only at the level of second quantization. In search of a
new mathematics for the resolution of this imbalance the author
conceived what we know today as Santilli’s isodual mathematics, which
permitted the construction of isodual classical mechanics, isodual
quantization and isodual quantum mechanics. The scope of this
monograph is to show that our classical, quantum and cosmological
knowledge of antimatter is at its beginning with much yet to be
discovered, and that a commitment to antimatter by experimentalists
will be invaluable to antimatter science.
About the Author
Professor Ruggero Maria Santilli received his degree of "Dottore in
Fisica" from the University of Naples, Italy. In 1966, at the
Graduate School in Physics of the University of Turin, he obtained
the highest Italian degree, corresponding to the U.S. Ph.D. in
Physics. He also held the chair of Professor of Nuclear Physics at
the famous A. Avogadro Institute in Turin, Italy. In 1967 Santilli
was invited by the University of Miami, Florida, to conduct research
with NASA financial support. In 1968 he joined Boston University as
Associate Professor of Physics, where he taught Physics and conducted
research for the U.S. Air Force, the latter of which led to his
assuming the U.S. Citizenship. In 1976 and 1977 Santilli was a
visiting scholar at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1978 Santilli joined
Harvard University where he was co-principal investigator of research
grants from the U.S. Department of Energy numbers ER-78-
S-02-47420.A000 and AS02-78ER04742 In 1983 he assumed the position of
President and Professor of Theoretical Physics of the newly formed
Institute for Basic Research, then ocated on Harvard Grounds, as well
as Principal Investigator of several DOE contracts. From 1998 to 2001
Santili occupied the post of Doctor of research of corporations in
the U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Recently he retired while remaining
affiliated with various academic and corporate research institutions
in the U.S.A., Ukraine, Russia, China, Italy, and Austria. Santilli
is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Hadronic
Journal, Hadronic Journal Supplement and Algebras, Groups and
Geometries. He is also Editor to several journals in Physics and
Mathematics, and a reviewer/advisor to many other journals.
Hardcover: 340 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 1402045174
