Side road sojourn here, kids. I myself shouldn't even be concerning myself with it, what with my dear little heavy water Wisp reactor runs going. (yes, reporting on that will come soon)
OK, the diversion for the day is about matter, antimatter, and time. Translations mine, I've gathered that quite some time ago Feynman and Wheeler declared, proved, or insinuated that a positron moving forward in time is indistinguishable from an electron moving backward in time. If this is so, then presumably the same would hold true for a proton and anti-proton. Now what concerns me isn't so much proof of this, but more a matter of what in the deuce differentiates a neutron from an anti-neutron, if they are...er...neutral! IS it spin? Whatever the cause or metric, if the F and W idea of antiparticles being time reversed is so, then what would stop time reversed neutrons from infiltrating normal matter and causing all sorts of really silly things to happen? Strange matter? Or if neutrons and anti-neutrons are different only in spin, then if you take a beam of neutrons and find a way to reverse their magnetic moment, do you suddenly have a beam of antiparticles? If I am not cautious, I could get sucked into this more, despite my eschewing the math. Somebody set me straight and pull me out, por favor. NR __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
