Re: Balloon-Borne Instrument Collects Antimatter

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• 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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