----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Antimatter Factory On Sun
Hi, >I enjoyed Seeberger's article, Antimatter Factory On Sun Yields Clues To Solar Explosions, >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg22608.html. The sun isn't actually an antimatter >factory. The explosions are caused by antimatter colliding with the sun. The explosions can be equivalent to >billions of Megatons of TNT. Antimatter coming in our solar system is also know as sungazers and comets. >The solar wind and dust particles are blasting antimatter off the comet's surface to form the comet's ambi->plasma coma and tails. OK, lets assume that comets are anti-matter. Why don't we get reactions such as e+ e- > virtual photon or p+ p- > virtual photon when the solar wind hits the comet? Why is a tail formed instead? I think that is is the single best way to falsify your claim, although there are plenty of other ways. >This phenomena led scientists to the discovery that comets are composed of antimatter. After a comet breaks up, is is still anti-matter? If so, why aren't meteor showers more spectaular? >The announcement was made at the April 2002 joint meeting of American Physical Society and American >Astronomical Society. The discovery is as important as man's discovery and use of fire thousands of years >ago. Hmm, curious that it didn't rate a mention at: http://epswww.epfl.ch/aps/apsnews/0602/060201.html was this an on or off the agenda announcement? :-) > a.. Science Comets have been discovered to be natural sources of antimatter. Antimatter is a mirror image >of matter and composed of 109 antimatter elements that are included in an updated Periodic Table of >Elements. What is interesting is the website I gave indicated that we may be close to creating anti-hydrogen for the first time. >Each antimatter element's nuclear, physical, and chemical properties has been identified to such an extent that >people know almost as much about antimatter as matter. Matter-antimatter symmetry exists from matter & >antimatter black holes in center of galaxies, spiral arms of stars & anti-stars, planets & anti- planets, asteroids >& comets, solar & comet dust particles, solar wind & comet ions, elements & anti-elements, quarks & anti->quarks, and leptons & anti-leptons. The asymmetry of matter and anti-matter is still a significant question. An asymmetry between proton and anti-proton decay would explain it; but it hasn't been observed. IIRC, our ability to establish a lower limit to the lifetime of the anti-proton is not sufficient to rule out anti-proton decay as the reason. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
