If this is true, Frank. How does the annihilation of an electron with a positron produce two photons each with 510 Mev positive energy?
Frederick > [Original Message] > From: Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/2/05 2:32:36 AM > Subject: Negative mass, etc. > > Subsequent to learning that Mills realised that the > electron had negative mass I have been revisiting a > post I wrote a year ago. I have copied the relevant > part below. > > ========================================================= > Iterative Hierarchical Strain and the atom. > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 > > ...As far as hierarchical strain is concerned the atom is > conveniently divided into two quite distinct regions, the > nucleus and the electronic cloud. It is not difficult to see > which must be the region in relative tension and which must > be the region in relative compression. One can visualise the > Gamma atmosphere being torn apart with the nucleus under > enormous relative compression and the cloud under enormous > tension relative to the Gamma atmosphere pressure. Electrons > therefore would seem to be holes opening up in the Gamma > atmosphere. > > Interestingly enough there is an artefact which models this > situation rather nicely. When I was a boy I had a habit of > taking things apart. I rarely managed to get them back > together again but I did have the satisfaction of seeing > how they worked. One of the things I cut open was a golf > ball. I found it consisted of a great length of elastic > wound tightly around a hard rubber core - in effect a > archetypal model of the prestressed atom. > ========================================================= > > So in effect the electron can be seen as having negative > strain energy and the proton as having positive strain > energy. > > The beauty of looking at energy in terms of strain > rather than in terms of mass is that it is immediately > obvious how negative mass arises. > > Strain can be positive or negative, minus epsilon (-e) > or plus epsilon +(e). Now strain energy which entails > strain squared has the same positive sign whether it > is derived from -e or +e. > > Of course, strictly speaking it is not mass, as such, > which is positive or negative, it is wot underlies > mass that is positive or negative, i.e. velocity if > one is taking the dynamic view, or strain if one is > taking the static view. > > In terms of mass energy then, the electron has a > tensile mass energy, a specific mass energy below > that of the surrounding neutral mass aether and the > positron has a compressive mass energy above that > of the surrounding neutral mass aether. > > Now we don't have the problem of being able to > visualize a neutral state in the case of charge > since we already see charge as negative and positive. > This suggests that charge is a direct measure of > some scale of velocity and not a indirect (squared) > measure as in the case of mass. > > At present, of course, positive and negative charges > are assumed to be entirely symmetrical, but clearly > this is nonsense. If the positron and electron were > completely symmetrical to each other then anti- > hydrogen (negatively charged proton surrounded by a > positron) would be just as common as normal hydrogen. > If charge is seen as source and sink at the bottom > of some real ocean then the asymmetry is plain. > A source in a real ocean has to be at a higher > pressure than a sink and therefor the absolute > strain energy at the relevant scale has to be > greater for the source than for the sink. > > One would imagine that this necessary asymmetry > between electron and positron would show up in the > properties of positronium but I can find no evidence > of it - except of course, that of the energy given > out as both mass and charge revert to the ambient > aether values of neutral mass and neutral charge. > > It would seem that mass and charge are complementary > hierarchical properties like pressure and compreture > (reciprocal of temperature) at a higher level of > structure. Increasing the pressure of a gas decreases > the compreture and vice versa. > > Cheers > > Frank Grimer
