From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Sun Aug 22 1999 - 21:21:27 MDT
Sayke@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/20/99 9:04:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mike@lorrey.com
> writes:
>
> > No it would not. We would see it the entire time. However we would first
> > encounter it in what it considers its later life, while it would
> > encounter us in what we consider our later life. If I met an anti-matter
> > clock, i would think that it is moving backwards, while an anti-matter
> > person would think its moving forwards. If I talked with an anti-matter
> > person, I would hear their last word first, and their first word
> > last.... Any Questions?
>
> yea. ok, so lets say ive got this antimatter clock merrily spinning away,
> backwards, suspended via maglev in a vacuum chamber. then, to be ornery, i
> adjust the magnetic field slightly to tilt the clock to the side... how does
> the clock respond? does it actually tilt? that would require that it move
> forward in time...
> or am i just picturing your anology wrong, mike? i find this very
> nonintuitive...
I honestly don't know for sure, but my intuition says that the clock
will tilt before you adjust the magnetic field (hints of the old
thalidomide reaction that Azimov used to speak of) though how close the
action/reaction will occur I cannot say. The fact that we are on this
side of the big bang (thus dictating the force of entropy in one
direction) probably decides the issue differently than in an anti-matter
universe on the other side of the big bang.
Someone said my perception of this was a misunderstanding, but they
failed to explain why the Transactional interpretation should not be
taken as literally as this. I would be very interested in hearing this
explaination.
Mike Lorrey
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