Mirror Matter Mystery

BBC ^ | 11-13-2002

[IncPen]

"Analysis, Spock?"

[tictoc]

The Perils of Modern Living

Well up above the tropostrata
There is a region stark and stellar
Where, on a streak of anti-matter
Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

Remote from Fusion's origin,
He lived unguessed and unawares
With all his antikith and kin,
And kept macassars on his chairs.

One morning, idling by the sea,
He spied a tin of monstrous girth
That bore three letters: A. E. C.
Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands,
Met two who in their alien ways
Were like as lentils. Their right hands
Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

-- Harold P. Furth

[SubSailor]

I always thought mirror matter referred to the remnants of a popped zit.

[eddie willers]

"Analysis, Spock?"

"Fascinating"

[LiteKeeper]

later

[Desdemona]

Mirror, Mirror
on the wall,
Who has the flakiest theory
of them all?

[Pete]

for every known particle there is a mirror particle that restores the cosmic balance. [insert bong noises here]

[KarlInOhio]

"Analysis, Spock?"

"Fascinating"

[Consort]

..Mirror Potato.

[Paradox]

This has been well known for a long time now, in fact, NASA produced a documentary (cleverly disguised as a sci-fi movie) many decades ago about it.

[TC Rider]

Its close scrutiny of Eros revealed many strange features - such as flat-bottomed craters filled with a peculiar bluish dust, and a puzzling lack of small craters.

It must be 'The Watcher', there is no other explanation.

[KarlInOhio]

Mirror Potato.

No, you have the wrong one.

[okiedust]

FYI, ping.

[Billthedrill]

A mirror universe, populated by matter similar to our own but weirder. Dang it, there's an Algore joke in there begging to be let out.

[Camachee]

okie, I saw this article and actually thought of pinging you. LOL!

"Mirror matter is not anti-matter...it's wierder."

"Laws of nature, such as the rules that govern the interactions of fundamental particles, show a high degree of symmetry except that some laws are not the same when reflected in a hypothetical mirror."

I've got a feeling this is coming soon to a Pullman car near you. :)

[JennysCool]

elementary particles display a preference for left over right.

They don't call 'em elementary for nothin'!

[January24th]

***some laws are not the same when reflected in a hypothetical mirror."

That's why it's best to avoid hypothetical questions...
:^)

[MHGinTN]

The left-handed ones summ for gravity and the right-handed ones sum for anti-gravity. Why do we have large mass objects? Because the natural 'place' for right-handeds is at the peripheri of the solar systems, but they exist in thin amounts throughout an entire solar system just as lefties exist in thin amopunts at the 'edge' of a solar system but tend to concentrate within the visible mass total. [Hey, I can guess can't I?]

[Camachee]

That's why it's best to avoid hypothetical questions...

Mirrors don't lie.

:P