From: Skye Howard (skyezacharia@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 01:31:03 MDT
--- Doug Jones <random@qnet.com> wrote:
> While it's true that any individual antiparticle can
> be treated
> mathematically as a time-reversed particle, it does
> travel forward
> in time at 1 s/s just like everything else. In
> particular,
> antiparticles cannot propagate information backward
> in time, as your
> interpretation would imply. Antimatter does not run
> toward zero.
>
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > Clint O'Dell wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm no physicist, but doesn't anti-matter and
> matter annihilate each other?
> > > How could you capture anti-matter that is
> floating around with matter?
> >
> > An anti-matter particle is only eliminated by its
> exact opposite. An
> > anti-electron cannot be eliminated by an
> anti-proton. The problem with
> > this balloon experiment is that the whole idea of
> anti-matter galaxies
> > existing in the present day is ludicrous unless
> there is to be another
> > big bang some time in the future. Any anti-matter
> that was created by
> > our original big bang that was not eliminated at
> the time of the big
> > bang is now some 26 billion years in the past,
> since anti-matter of any
> > kind is simply matter that is going backwards in
> time. If anti-matter
> > galaxies exist in the present day, then this means
> that we live in a
> > closed universe and that it will collapse some
> time in the future to
> > form a new big bang (or big bounce, as the case
> may be), as those
> > galaxies are from that future time. Since the
> current preponderance of
> > the evidence is that we live in an open universe,
> I predict that
> > anti-matter galaxies will not be found....
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
>
> --
> Doug Jones, Freelance Rocket Plumber
>
I sincerely hope so, anyway. The thought of a new big
bang coming along and crushing everything before
exploding creeps me out, even with entropy destroying
everything anyways.
*joking thought*: If entropy destroys complex systems,
and physics is a complex system of laws, can entropy
destroy itself?
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