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Volume 25: Pages 347-348, 2012

Semantic issues with the word “anti” in particle physics

Zifeng Li a) and Xuejiao Li b)

Petroleum Engineering Institute, Yanshan University, Hebei 066004, People's Republic of China

At present, matter composed of antiparticles such as antiprotons, anti-electrons, and so on is named “antimatter”. However, these names that begin with the word “anti” are logically inconsistent as they imply nonexistence. In the classification and naming of substances, the feature words should be put before the category nouns, e.g. antimatter should better be renamed “isomeric matter”.

Actuellement, matière composée de ”antiparticules ” comme ”l'antiproton”, ”anti-électron” etc., est nommé ”antimatière”. Cependant, ces noms qui commencent par le mot ”anti” impliquent, en raison d'erreurs logiques, que les substances n'existent pas. Dans la classification et la dénomination des substances, les méthodes de nommer qui doivent être suivies sont que les mots caractéristiques doivent être mis devant ou après les noms de catégorie. L'antimatière “ devrait être renommé «matière isomère”.

Key words: Antimatter, Naming, Rename, Isomeric Matter

Received: May 15, 2011; Accepted: May 29, 2012; Published Online: August 24, 2012

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