At 10:51 am 19/08/2005 -0500, Harry wrote: > Grimer wrote: > > >> >> Look at it this way. View the air molecules (the Alpha-atmosphere [A-a]) >> as dissolved in the Beta-atmosphere [B-a] which consists of particles of >> neutral mass and neutral charge. Thus A-a pressure (15 psi) is only a tiny >> fraction of the B-a pressure (100,000 psi, say). >> > > > What do you mean by "neutral mass" in your theory. > > Harry
Mass, like charge can be positive or negative. If a particle comprises equal amounts of positive and negative mass - like the Hotson residue of positron-electron alleged "annihilation" then the particle will have neutral mass (and neutral charge too, of course). The necessary existence of neutral mass can be seen from strain energy consideration. Strain energy involves epsilon squared. But a squared term implies two roots, one positive and the other negative. These correspond, of course, to the two types of strain energy, tensile and compressive strain energies. One has to be careful to distinguish between two different types of mass. Numerator Mass and Denominator Mass. Numerator Mass relates to the number of objects. Five objects have five times more Numerator Mass than one object. To have negative Numerator Mass one would have to have negative objects which is clearly nonsense. Traditional Newtonian mechanics was solely concerned with Numerator Mass. Denominator Mass was assumed unchanging and did not enter into consideration. However, last century it was discovered that the mass of a given object could vary. When one projects an electron at approaching light speed the Numerator Mass stays the same. One electron does not become seven electrons for example. It is the Denominator Mass which changes. It is a change in accidents not a change in substance (using these terms in the philosophical sense). Now, along with Leibniz, I hold the view that if it doesn't move it doesn't exist. Denominator Mass is a manifestation of some fine scale velocity as both Ing.Saviour and I have independently realised. Velocity is a vector and so we can have a body with contra-rotating parts which has a net zero internal velocity, i.e. a neutral mass. Cheers, Frank Grimer
