According to Agence France-Presse, scientists at Europe's largest particle physics laboratory claim that, as a result of experiments, they managed to create antimatter for the first time. According to them, this opens the way to a "thorough study of antiworlds." The experiments, which were carried out in September 1995, led to the creation of 9 atoms of antihydrogen - a substance that is identical to hydrogen, but in which each of the two particles has an opposite charge.
"Antiatoms", which moved at a speed close to the speed of light, existed for only a fraction of a second before they collided with ordinary matter and annihilation took place.
The presence of antimatter, which under normal conditions cannot exist on Earth, was previously proved by scientists only theoretically.
“A lecturer I know told me yesterday: 'Anti-worlds are mura',” wrote Andrei Voznesensky in the early 1960s about the anti-world hypothesis. And he exclaimed: "Long live the antiworlds - oases among the morass!" Not only poetry, but also scientific literature of that time was filled with dreams of discovering the anti-world.
There was a reason for this, and what a reason. One after another, antiparticles were discovered, and, quite naturally, an assumption arose about the existence of antimatter and antiworld.
No one really knew what it was, but many were frightened by the formidable word “annihilation”. If even a small particle of matter meets with the same particle of antimatter, then the world will instantly annihilate, that is, it will explode.
Since our world is still safe and sound, there was practically no chance for antimatter to exist in it. Publications about anti-worlds began to appear less and less and soon disappeared. But philosophers and science fiction writers have sucked the idea of antiworlds to the bone. If there is anti-matter and anti-world, parallel to ours, then there is anti-space and anti-time in it. Our dark past is a bright future for anti-Worlds, and therefore a journey into the past and into the future from the realm of science fiction has passed into the field of scientific research. If there is an antiworld, then time can move in the opposite direction.
How not to recall here the play of the great futurist Velimir Khlebnikov called "Mirskontsa" (peace from the end). In it, the funeral procession moves from the cemetery to the house, the deceased old man rises from the coffin, becomes younger, becomes a student, then a schoolboy, then a baby, who is being carried across the stage in a baby carriage. If you look at our mournful life from the neighboring anti-world, then it looks like that. First we die, then we revive, then we move from old age to youth and end our path with birth.
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Until now, all this could be regarded as an easy play of the mind, and nothing more, but now that antimatter is discovered and the possibility of time movement in the opposite direction is confirmed, it is time to think about the limitations of our ideas about life and death.
If each of us has our own counterpart in the anti-world, then our death for him is birth, and our birth is death. Death-birth is a favorite image of all magical and folklore rituals, and the wedding, the funeral and the bride-death are the key image of A. Blok's mystical drama "Balaganchik". In Chinese mythology, there is a certain old baby named Pangu, he is a complete portrait of a person in the world and anti-world. Many philosophers, prophets and poets talked about the existence of a kind of double in every person - a shadow. Velimir Khlebnikov described the meeting with his double in the following way: “Hello, old friend in the mirror,” I said. But the shadow pulled back its hand and said: "I am not your reflection, but you are mine."
With the discovery of antimatter, the mirrored otherworldly world from the field of fiction and mystical insights passes into the sphere of a little-studied, but undoubted reality. Immediately after the publication in Russian of the general theory of relativity of Albert Einstein, Pavel Florensky wrote the book "Imaginations in Geometry", which cost him his life. The book proved that our world is arranged according to the principle of the Mobius strip and that there is a point where the space of our world is turned inside out. The other world becomes this worldly, and then Dante writes "The Divine Comedy", where all the events of earthly life are given through the eyes of a person who has visited both sides of the twisted ribbon. Figuratively speaking, the antiworld is the reverse side of the Mobius strip. We all the time wander along the upper side and cannot catch the moment when we find ourselves in the next world,therefore death is seen from here as the end of life, while this is just a smooth transition into the realm of the otherworldly antiworld.
Nobody knows what antimatter is, but it exists, which means that the otherworldly antimatter world is a physical reality.
“In heaven and on earth, friend of Horatio, there is much that your learning has never dreamed of,” says Hamlet. At the end of the 20th century, a discovery was made, before which even the splitting of the atom pales. For the first time, not at the level of thought, but at the level of physical contact, humanity came into contact not with individual fragments, microparticles of antimatter, but with the whole other world.
Humanity has always known about the existence of the antimaterial world. Since this antiworld was physically inaccessible to us, philosophers, poets, and prophets were engaged in its figurative reconstruction. Plato spoke of the invisible counterparts of all things, calling them eidos. The Apostle John the Theologian once saw "a new heaven and a new earth" while in exile on the island of Patmos, and described his vision in the Apocalypse. There is an amazing statement: "And the voice was that there will be no more time." Indeed, if time moves simultaneously in the world and anti-world from death to life and from life to death, then one movement absorbs another and it is not. There is only an eternally lasting moment, brilliantly reflected in the image of a broken jug, from which all the time is pouring, but all the water will never pour out, because, pouring out, it is pouring in at the same time.
The most fervent religious and poetic fantasy could not imagine what physics of the 20th century is discovering. At the turn of the 21st century and the third millennium, a grandiose discovery was made, the 96th year opened the curtain of matter for humanity. Behind it is an intangible, or rather, antimaterial world.
The most daring, the most "crazy" hypothesis, in which the majority has long ceased to believe, has been confirmed. Our views on life and death become as naive as the ancients' ideas about a flat earth. If there is a reverse movement of time (and it is), then life does not end with death, but simply passes, I wanted to say: into the otherworldly, more precisely: into the antimaterial world.
XX century. Chronicle of the inexplicable. Opening after opening. Nikolai Nepomniachtchi