Does antimatter emit a new light? |
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Authors: | Ruggero Maria Santilli |
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Institution: | (1) Instituto per la Ricerca di Base, Molise, Italy |
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Abstract: | Contemporary theories of antimatter have a number of insufficiencies which stimulated the recent construction of the new isodual theory based on a certain anti-isomorphic map of all (classical and quantum) formulations of matter called isoduality. In this note we show that the isodual theory predicts that antimatter emits a new light, called isodual light, which can be distinguished from the ordinary light emitted by matter via gravitational interactions (only). In particular,
the isodual theory predicts that all stable antiparticles such as the isodual photon, the positron and the antiproton experience
antigravity in the field of matter (defined as the reversal of the sign of the curvature tensor). The antihydrogen atom is
therefore predicted to: experience antigravity in the field of Earth; emit the isodual photon; and have the same spectroscopy
of the hydrogen atom, although subjected to an anti-isomorphic isodual map. In this note we also show that the isodual theory
predicts that bound states of elementary particles and antiparticles (such as the positronium) experience ordinary gravitation
in both fields of matter and antimatter, thus bypassing known objections against antigravity. A number of intriguing and fundamental,
open theoretical and experimental problems of “the new physics of antimatter” are pointed out.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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