Re: Have Scientist ever seen Anti Matter?
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Re: Have Scientist ever seen Anti Matter?         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Tom Roberts
Date: Sep 13, 2008 08:24

PD wrote:
> On Sep 12, 6:24 pm, "Anthony Buckland"
> telus.net> wrote:
>> "Please define 'left'."
>
> This can be done with a drawing.

A drawing is inadequate, this requires a 3-d diagram. But one must be
careful how it is transmitted -- if as a raster image then the receiver
has a 50%% change of getting it inverted....

I think you need to use one of the parity-violating decays, but the
details are not obvious.... And I'm not sure that would work, as I
believe they actually violate CP, not just P (but on earth there's no
way to apply C to a bismuth nucleus).

C = charge conjugation, P = parity inversion.

But no matter
-- just have them send a SMALL object before coming, and
let us observe whether it annihilates or not.

Tom Roberts
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