Physics: Anti-Mirror on the Anti-Wall . . .

In the fantasies of science fiction, contraterrene, or CT, is something that strikes fear into the hearts of earthlings. CT is antimatter, which forms the substance of mysterious antiworlds where everything is the mirror image of its counterpart on earth. On some as yet undiscovered planet there might be antipeople who put freeze in their anti-cars, eat pasto for an anti-appetizer, take a dote to counteract antipoison or a biotic against anti-disease or a histamine for an anticold, who join the Defamation League and who put macassars on their anti-sofas. But...

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