Friar Bellows

Can you translate this?

Corwin

'Negative' matter is just another term for antimatter. Yes it exists... (not in contact with ordinary matter) and has mass. So far as I know, all atomic forces (like gravity) operate on it normally. (Which is why you hear sci-fi stories talk about magnetic containment. Antimatter would be contained within a magnetic field within a vaccum to keep it from coming into contact with ordinary matter.... and when we create antiparticles in an accelerator that's how we keep them separate.)

Skepticwithachainsaw

Yeah but Negative Matter (as we are talking about it) is different from Antimatter... This is more Negative-energy/mass matter... (As Antimatter has positive mass)

Hmm, isn't this a possible flaw with the idea that an Anti-Particle is basically a Particle travelling backwards in time, as gravity doesn't distinguish between the two... <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

Answerer

I will love to think of negative mass and positive mass being hidden in every single matter, just as our negative and positive charges. Maybe it made up only a very small portion of our total mass which make it so undetectable.

Demosthenes

it translates into

The more you know, the more you love, and by loving more, the more you enjoy

It's an Italian quote attributed to St. Catherine of Siena

Friar Bellows

Thanks Demosthenes.

ohwilleke

Gravity equations are not directional in time.

The notion of negative mass being repelled from positive mass (and presumably being attracted to other negative mass in the same way that positive mass is attacked to other positive mass) is interesting.

Similarly, I still have a soft place in my heart for the notion that all of the anti-matter present at the big bang went from its point of creation backwards in time, while the regular matter present at the big bang went forward in time -- hence implying an anti-matter universe, similar to our own 28 billion years in the past.

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