| Ye olde is antimatter antimass question -
05-04-2008, 01:33 PM
I went out on a limb in another forum and found that:
1. antimass chases mass.
2. antimass determines the direction of the chase.
2a. It would require a concept of absolute direction in an age of relativity. FNORD.
3. The acceleration of antimass toward mass as mass is repelled away by gravity is
equal to exactly
the acceleration necessary to get a newly emitted photon from 0 to c in Planck time.
If anyone asks I will go through the calculations.
The length the photon would travel during that time is half the Planck length.
Remember the gravitational constant is Planck length cubed divided by the quantity of the Planck mass multiplied by the Planck time squared.
I want to take this further.
Gravitationally antimass is repelled in the company of antimass.
Electromagnetically, the direction of the forces change but since the signs of the masses are negative the result is of course no net difference in behavior.
The question remains though, does mass being negative have any effect on the sign of the field value from a particle? Does a positron have a negative charge but a positive field because it is a negative mass?
I feel like I'm untangling the wires to my headphones. They work tangled, but they don't reach as far.
Would it be possible to arrange two neutrons and an antineutron to see them interact gravitationally without electromagnetic forces messing with the results?
I would expect one neutron to be attracted to the other neutron while being pushed by the chasing antineutron.
Does this happen?
Of course maybe this like the question Feynman asked: What happens to a hose with a curved end if the water were to flow backwards? Would it turn in reverse? Well it turns out (I forget the argument) it just explodes. There is no reverse, just kaboom.
Or we could try to see how a positron and an electron released from magnetic traps interact. Do they attract the same way electrically or does the chase effect have an effect? |