• i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It has a positive mass, and in every other way it acts just like normal matter going backwards in time (cpt inversion).

    If, despite its positive mass, it was pushed back by gravity, then it would have given even more weight to the theory that antimatter is just matter moving backwards.

    Since gravity is such a wonky interaction, I’m not even sure this result disproves the time-reversal theory entirely!

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      1 year ago

      Why would inverting charge make particles go backwards in time? Electrons have opposite charge to protons and they don’t seem to. Positrons have the opposite charge to electrons and as far as I know they don’t go backwards?

      I think you’re misinterpreting cpt reversal symmetry, which is if you mirrored the universe in terms of charge, time and parity it would essentially evolve the same