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- From: max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: Accellerating Spaceship (yet another bird in a plane)
- Message-ID: <i278VB11w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:06:29 GMT
- References: <Dec.22.18.44.27.1992.25878@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
-
- > > Actually Dirac said that mathmaticly Anti-matter looks exactly
- > > like regular matter but going backwards in time. Unfortunatly this
- > > would also imply that it IS moving faster than light as well.
- >
- > I thought Feynman said this. Anyway this doesn't mean it's going
- > faster than light.
-
- No, Dirac solved the wave equations describing this phenomena (or
- interpretation) first.
-
- > Antimatter has positive mass; I can't remember if the
- > experiments to test antimatter's gravitational acceleration by the
- > Earth have yet succeeded, but if it had negative inertia it would
- > (for example) curve the other way than expected in a bubble chamber
- > in a magnetic field, not to mention that conservation of energy
- > and momentum in particle reactions would be totally different.
-
- You're absolutely right. Antimatter has positive mass, and reacts to
- gravitational fields exactly the way that matter does. A recent
- experiment confirmed this; antimatter falls at the same rate that matter
- does to within a great deal of accuracy.
-
- > I'm sure this is a nice article and contains none of the misinformation
- > above. Sorry to be rude, but if you don't really know what you are
- > talking about please don't spread the ignorance around.
-
- :-)
-
-
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