Fwd: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces

Not agreeing/disagreeing, just passing it along....

2B^2

>From: "Brian Fuchs" <FUCHS_001@msn.com>
>To: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:22:18 -0500
>
>Brian,
>
>   Quite some time ago, I saw a picture of the large scale structure of
the
>universe.  It was the result of  a mapping effort that had taken
several
>decades. The image perplexed cosmologists, who had expected the
universe to
>be more or less uniform.  Turns out, matter was not evenly distributed
at
>all .	It was clumped together in these huge strains that formed 
>cobweb-like
>structures with big, empty voids.Or at least, the voids appeared empty.
>
>    When the news first broke about the acceleration of the universe's
>expansion, my mind immediately went back to that image.  Physicists
have
>long believed that for every particle of matter in the universe, there
must
>be a particle of  antimatter, because all our current data indicates
that
>the creation of a particle of matter automatically generates an
>antiparticle.	So the question is, where it is all this antimatter?
Now, we
>have never observed antimatter in sufficient quantities to determine
its
>gravitational effects.  However, it would not be too much of a stretch
to
>imagine that antigravity is a property of antimatter, just as gravity
is a
>property of matter.  This would be a force that attracts antimatter to 
>other
>antimatter, but repels matter from antimatter.
>
>    This would mean that the antimatter in the universe forms a
cobweb-like
>structure just like that of  matter.  A strand of antimatter would run
>through the center of each of those "big empty" spaces. Likewise, each
>strand of matter runs through the center of a large void in the
antimatter.
>The repelent forces between these two different types of matter would
be 
>the
>cause for the large voids and the force driving the expansion of the
>universe.
>
>Anyway, it's a thought!
>
>-Brian
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>To: <fuchs_001@msn.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:45 AM
>Subject: Fwd: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>
> > >Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > >To: "'gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu'" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> > >Subject: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
> > >Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:08:55 -0500
> > >
> > >I heard a program (Talk of the Nation, Science Friday?) that was
>discussing
> > >the finding that the universe is not slowing down as it expands; it
is
> > >actually gaining velocity. IIRC, this was evidenced by comparing
the
>amount
> > >of red-shift between objects over a set of standard intervals. The 
>amount
> > >of
> > >shift was increasing with each measurement.
> > >
> > >One theory proposed was that vaccum actually produced a repulsive
force
> > >(much weaker than gravity). Kind of strange thinking of something 
>comming
> > >from nothing (but string theory is strange anyway)!
> > >
> > >-----
> > >Brian Bell
> > >-----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: John Crimmins [mailto:johncrim@voicenet.com]
> > >Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 19:44
> > >To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > >Subject: [FT] Strange Forces
> > >
> > >
> > >I don't know if this has an FT applications, but it's certainly
food 
>for
> > >thought....
> > >
> > >http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020211-67166412.htm
> > >
> > >--
> > >John Crimmins
> > >johncrim@voicenet.com
> > >http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim
> >
> >
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