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+1 for Arrival.

Also, Tenet was quite good. Antiparticles being time-reversed particles, jinn particles... with humans.



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Anti-particles.

antimatter :-P

So similar to “anti particles”?

And antimatter.

How does this square with the idea that antiparticles are particles traveling backwards in time?

yeah. antimatter, dude.

Antimatter isn't matter flying backwards in time, it just has some symmetries that make it appear so in some cases.

So you might think of anti-matter being matter but with all the spacetime coordinates (including time) reversed, right?

Traveling in opposite directions and back in time?


And antimatter? (Or at least anti-electrons?)

Well, the pair created can be thought of as as a particle and an antiparticle, one of which falls in.

There is Antimatter https://braid.org/antimatter

If antimater particles were time reversed then I could see how they could have negative energy and thus antigravity. That's not at all how any observed particles behave though.

Physicists are able to produce small quantities of matter and antimatter, which then annihilate each other, releasing energy. It was a big deal when they were able to trap the antimatter so that it didn't do this.

If the two particles travelled different directions in time, how would they meet?


Pretty sure it's its own anti-particle

Why stop there? The matter itself is energy, so combine a human with an anti-human....

Good point; I forgot about the process of actually creating the antimatter.

hmm, antimatter? dark matter?

It’s important to note the distinction between being able to model antiparticles as the time-reverses versions of their partners, and then actually “moving backwards through time” as it were. It’s not as though a sample of anti-hydrogen experiences a reverse or cause and effect.

Discussion: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/391/is-anti-matt...


um, did you mean electrons and positrons? afaik photons are their own antiparticles....
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