I don't know what I am talking about in this arena, but that hasn't curtailed my audacity to comment on most other things here, so why stop now. 8^)
At 1:40 PM 10/20/4, Nick Reiter wrote: >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? Neither strange nor charming! Nor top nor bottom either! Neutrons are composed of one up and two down quarks. Anti-neutrons are composed of an anti-up and two anti-down quarks. There is no low energy way to create an anti-neutron from a neutron, AFAIK. Regards, Horace Heffner
