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

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:38:34 -0700

Jesse wrote

> 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.

Jesse you are too quick. If you actually plug the right signs in
Newton's equations: F=ma and F=Gmm'/r2 you'll discover that positive
mass attracts everything including negative mass, and that negative mass
repels everything including negative mass. The behavior is markedly
different from that of matter and antimatter. So negative mass could
never gravitationally form planets but could only exist in a gaseous or
distributed form in the Universe and appear to cancel long range
gravitational force (possibly what we are seeing with the Pioneer
spacecrafts?)

George Levy
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 22:40:37 PDT