RE: Ask a theoretical physicist turned teacher, lecturer and author
July 22, 2017 at 5:07 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2017 at 5:11 am by Alex K.)
(July 21, 2017 at 11:20 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Have I ever inflicted this one on you before:
OK, if matter and antimatter are mixed you get energy, and rather a lot of it.
Now imagine a hypothetical form of 'matter' that when mixed with regular matter yields nothing, that is, no energy, and both forms of matter cancel out and there is nothing left if the masses are equal.
Now imagine another form of matter that when mixed with antimatter yields nothing.
OK, now mix the first form of hypothetical matter with the second form of hypothetical matter.
What do you get ?
If we keep the principle of conservation of energy, your mirror matter would carry negative energy in order to cancel the positive energy of matter to nothing. Antimatter also carries positive energy, so mirror-Antimatter also carries negative energy. So if you bring mirrormatter and mirrorantimatter together, you would get negative energy out. Either your theory contains negative energy photons which could be emitted in this annihilation process,
mirror particle + mirror antiparticle -> 2 mirror photons
OR to set off the annihilation of mirrormatter and mirrorantimatter we need additional ordinary photons of matching energy to again enable an annihilation process
mirror particle+mirror antiparticle+2 ordinary photons -> nothing
by absorbing the negative energy.
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