Re: ROSS MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE - The Simplest Yet Theory of Everything

From: Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:30:25 -0400

John M wrote:

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>
>Jesse and George:
>the cobbler apprentice speaketh:
>
>you, mathematically high-minded savants look for a
>primitive realization of 'negative mass' etc, while
>you find it natural to use negative numbers. If I was
>185lb last week and now 180 lb, then I have 5 lb in
>negative.
>Of course I cannot physically identify the 'missing
>mass', but mathematically it exists and I can
>calculate with it, speak about it, think about it: it
>'exists'.

Well, you're free to define "negative mass" however you like, of course--but
this is not how physicists would use the term. When you plug negative values
of mass or energy into various physics equations it leads to weird
consequences that we don't see in everyday life, such as the fact that
negative-mass objects would be gravitationally repelled by positive-mass
objects, rather than attracted to them. Likewise, in general relativity only
negative mass/energy would be able to hold open a wormhole, there'd be no
way to arrange positive mass/energy to do that.

Jesse
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 18:36:23 PDT