Fwd: Re: RE: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces

The last is passed on frim Mr. Fuchs.

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>From: "Brian Fuchs" <FUCHS_001@msn.com>
>To: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:15:30 -0500
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>To: <fuchs_001@msn.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:20 PM
>Subject: Fwd: RE: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Beth.Fulton@csiro.au
> > >Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > >To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > >Subject: RE: Re: RE: [FT] Strange Forces
> > >Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:15:08 +1100
> > >
> > >G'day,
> > >
> > > > As I had understood it, antimatter has positive mass and
therefore
> > > > normal gravity; however, it is possible that there are particles

>with
> > > > negative mass, which would attract each other but repel
particles 
>with
> > > > positive matter.
> > >
> > >There's also mirror matter... maybe we're seeing the gravitational
>effects
> > >of a mirror matter planet within our local system (then again maybe
I
>know
> > >just enough physics to be the equivalent of a deranged looney about
to
> > >shoot
> > >their own foot off).
> > >
> > >Cheers
> > >
> > >Beth
> >

>Although it is true that antimatter has mass, it is also true that
>negative energy has energy. Now, negative mass is a concept which, I
must
>admit, stretches my mind near to the breaking point! Five years ago, I 
>would
>have just called it impossible.  However, since the discovery of
negative
>energy, I find I no longer have a clear idea of what's possible and
what
>isn't! In fact, the mere existence of negative energy could very well 
>render
>negative mass an inevitable conclusion; since, after all, energy IS
mass.
>
>    Of course, this is the point at which the fog roles in, and a voice
in
>the back of my head screams, "Mass cannot be a negative number!!!!!".

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