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Antimatter can be interpreted as matter moving backwards through time. And hello

bluntmuffin

bluntmuffin

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Good afternoon everyone. The title refers to antimatter and retrocausality:
Feynman, and earlier Stueckelberg, proposed an interpretation of the positron as an electron moving backward in time[17], reinterpreting the negative-energy solutions of the Dirac equation. Electrons moving backward in time would have a positive electric charge. Wheeler invoked this concept to explain the identical properties shared by all electrons, suggesting that "they are all the same electron" with a complex, self-intersecting worldline.[18] Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs, stating that "the eventual creation and annihilation of pairs that may occur now and then is no creation or annihilation, but only a change of direction of moving particles, from past to future, or from future to past."[19] The backwards in time point of view is nowadays accepted as completely equivalent to other pictures, but it doesn't have anything to do with the macroscopic terms "cause" and "effect", which do not appear in a microscopic physical description.
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Anyway, I'm a guy from New Zealand. :)

First of all - I've come the nexus to learn. So far I've had experience with many of the main entheogens (psilocybin mushrooms are my main 'teacher') and wish to experience many more. These have opened my mind to possibility, and helped me to shape the path I'm going to walk later in life. I'm very concerned with the state of the planet, and I'm determined to use my position as a human within humanity (analogous to a cell in an organism) to help.
As Einstein said “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
I've performed extractions and bioassays of two New Zealand plant species so far, Pukatea and Radula Marginata. I wish to learn more about chemistry and biology so that I too can add to the global knowledge.

And yeah, feel free to ask me any questions. I hope that I can make a contribution at some stage. :D
 
Hello.

Cool quote. I'm only in an "introduction to modern physics" class at the moment so I'm very far from expert.

While mathematically the electron would be a positron moving backwards in time, or visa versa, I don't think one can actually understand the implications/reasons behind this unless they are particle physicists and have a deeper understanding of both the mathematics and actual particle experiments conducted today. Like, while it would be it's anti-particle moving backwards in time, it is also its own self moving forwards in time, so really what does that mean? Can you start making connections to time-travel and the like? Maybe you can... I'm kinda just presenting another view.

There is a tremendous amount of symmetry in particle physics, and so much we still don't know. So while incredibly interesting, I just don't think one can get a solid idea of nature and time-travel type scenarios just yet, especially a lay-person.

Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs, stating that "the eventual creation and annihilation of pairs that may occur now and then is no creation or annihilation, but only a change of direction of moving particles, from past to future, or from future to past.
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Energy can convert to mass, and visa versa. Photons for example can come together and create an electron/positron pair. Then that pair (a matter/antimatter pair) can come together and annihilate to produce photons shooting out in different directions. We see this in particle accelerators.

So your quote is saying the creation is just a change of direction of moving particles, but I don't understand that in the context of two photons coming together and creating a matter/anti-matter pair in real space-time.

Of course there is a laughable about that I don't understand and again, I'm just presenting something else to think about. Physics constantly blows apart my understanding of reality, so I know there are fundamental truths I don't know/understand yet.. I hope/plan to one day be able to properly explain things like your quote.

yay for science.
 
The physics is only mathematically correct - a far cry from it being an explanation for real phenomena. :p But that's good enough for me to ponder. A very good book is 'The Tao of Physics' which essentially combines particle physics and Eastern mysticism. It's swayed me to Zen.

SWIM (Is that necessary here?) has experimented with DMT before. The stock was from MHRB, and 50g was STB extracted giving a yield of only 0.35% plus some dark spice from 2 xylene pulls. Unfortunately no major breakthrough experiences were had, the closest was losing awareness of consciousness and being only aware of a colour-changing sea. SWIM will try a CWE on the rest of the MHRB along with some Syrian Rue, because it may prove better than low yield I was getting.

I'm also looking for other sources of it. It's possible to find a few wild strains of Phalaris here, and I may do that, unless I can find some way to get 'Big Medicine' strain, but it's not looking likely. But I'm deathly afraid of gramine - because f*** that s***. There's also a few Acacia species (notably Maidenii), but they're not very widespread and it's confusing to tell them apart without the flowers. If only there was a field-tester for specific indoles.

My experience with Pukatea (Laurelia novae-zelandiae) involved a methanol extraction to yield resin. I then consumed the resin in gel capsules on various occasions at varying dosages. The resin degraded quite rapidly in a matter of weeks - it's now quite a lot less active. The resin produces strong numbness in the mouth. In a few bioassays I noted this numbness proceeding throughout my body. One bioassay I smoked cannabis and had a dissociative experience that was unlike all previous bioassays. Still hard to categorize it's effects. Will perform another extraction this summer, and perhaps will go further to obtain crystals for storage.

Radula Marginata was found to contain small amounts of the traditional cannabinoid Perrotetinene. I made an acetone extraction from 4g of material, and yielded a tiny amount of resin. This was inactive when smoked. It's my belief that as a cis isomer, perrotetinene will not be centrally active at any dosage. The reasoning behind this is that cis isomer of delta9-THC is not active at all, while the trans isomer (found in the Cannabis plant) is obviously active. So there needs to be some chemistry to change the sterechemistry. I've read about it being done with cis-delta9-THC, and therefore I assume I can use a similar method on the Radula, and then maybe, maybe we'll have a new source of natural cannabinoids needing only a simple bit of chemistry to work. :)
 
Hehehe, thanks for the link. It's interesting times we live in now. If only more money was spent on this sort of thing, instead of ipods.
 
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