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Antimatter and Pseudotachyonic Relativity

  • 1. Colegio Valsassina, Av. Teixeira da Mota, Quinta das Teresinhas, 1959-010 Lisboa (Portugal)

Description

A new conception of antiparticle is proposed as the subluminal '' image '' of a tachyonic homologous particle. After a first article on the subject, we begin by studying the pseudotachyonic transformation for energy, linear momentum and mass. We'll finally conclude that: · antiparticles must have negative energy (and massive ones also negative masses) and opposite electric charge; · antiphotons behave differently from photons; · this difference appears, for instance, in the Compton effect generalized to antiparticles; · the annihilation of colliding homologous particles and pair creation through colliding particles (this one yet an open problem) doesn't exactly fit in its standard description; · antimatter is characterized by negative absolute temperatures and the inversion of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. (author)

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Journal Title
Old and New Concepts of Physics
Journal Volume
4
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 507-546
ISSN
1733-8026

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Notes
9 refs., 7 figs.