Word: antiworlds
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...conjectural game tangles the mind in difficulties antiworld speculations on the classics that an infinite number of monkeys might have composed on an infinite number of type writers. J.D. Salinger years ago enforced Connolly's game upon himself, vanishing into a weird silence that for those who love his work has always felt like a small, sharp loss. Thomas Pynchon dwells somewhere in an aloof privacy in deep cover making metaphysical devices in his basement, like a terrorist who has gone into the fireworks business...
...anti-deuteron. It is the antimatter counterpart to the nucleus of deuterium (heavy hydrogen), consists of an antiproton and antineutron bound by a strong nuclear force, and has a negative charge. Such an achievement, the Columbia researchers conclude, provides strong evidence to support theories about the existence of an antiworld of stars, planets, and possibly even antipeople...
...left, and even the flow of time is reversed. Discovery of the anti-deuteron shows that there must be a nuclear force binding the particles of antimatter that is equivalent to the one binding particles of ordinary matter. Further study of this force should reveal just how precisely the antiworld duplicates the world. "A new and deeper world and antiworld symmetry is now believed to hold," says Lederman, "in which the antiworld does not only have antiparticles replace particles, but also is a mirror image of our world...
...location of such an antiworld, if it exists, remains just as big a mystery as ever. But discovery of the anti-deuteron makes the search all the more challenging, for science fiction and physics alike. "It is not possible now," says Lederman, "to disprove the grand speculation that these antiworlds could be populated by thinking creatures." Some antipeople out there right now might just be puzzling over something they have discovered called a deuteron...
...antiworld of the so-called anti-novelists of France, the characters often seem to grope toward each other like blind men buffeted in a high wind. Time moves slowly, emotions are muted, action is rare. The prevailing mood is one of hopelessness in the face of conditions neither invited nor understood. One of the masters of the genre is Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior...