On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:52 PM, thomas malloy wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008, at 8:51 AM, OrionWorks wrote:
Also, wouldn't a sizable macro-scale amount of mirror matter
appear to
weigh less than predicted? In fact If I understand this correctly
if a
sample was composed more than 50 percent (volume-wise) of mirror
matter wouldn't it manifest negative weight, or antigravitation
influences? If so, the stuff would obviously be difficult to locate!
Would have likely floated away millions & billions of years ago! ;-)
No. Mirror matter weakly binds with ordinary matter. If light
mirror matter nuclei bind with heavier ordinary matter nuclei,
then the result is net ordinary matter, but with low density. It
is of great interest that the binding is so weak that mirror
matter can be separated by use of a strong centrifuge. See:
Orion Work's Mirror Matter idea reminds me of upsadaisyum a metal
with antigravity properties. It was part of the Rocky The Flying
Squriel cartoon series. Is there really a possibility that
something like that exists?
Actually mirror matter is Robert Foot's idea. See:
Robert Foot, 2002, Shadowlands: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universe,
Universal Publishers, ISBN 158112645X
The fact it likely contains negative gravitational charge, at least
as manufactured in black holes in our galaxy, was my idea. See Page
32 ff of:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/OldGravimag.pdf
for more details regarding a method to search for the stuff that
actually has negative weight, not just increased buoyancy, i.e. by
use of glacial runoff. Glaciers will definitely trap the stuff, as
will minerals, like salt. Old rocks should be full of the stuff, as
should old meteors. It is just that it is most economical to search
where nature is already doing the hard things for you, like
dissolving or melting the retaining material.
Also, if the negative gravitational stuff, which I called cosmic
matter, is indeed arriving as cosmic rays, then there should be a
constant flux of the cosmic matter floating to the surface of the
ocean. Surface tension should hold it down in sufficient quantities
for it to concentrate on the surface of the ocean.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
