Anti-particle is particle that moves back in time ?

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Anti-particle is particle that moves back in time ? Jonh Wheeler has an argument about it ?
Is this really true ?
How this works ?
Thanks
 
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Arman777 said:
Anti-particle is particle that moves back in time ?
No it is not. Mathematically there are some similarities in some models, but that is all.
 
mfb said:
No it is not. Mathematically there are some similarities in some models, but that is all.
I am sad :( I didnt expect this answer...
 
Arman777 said:
I am sad :( I didnt expect this answer...

There are a great many "hypothetical ideas" that get lobbed around in science. Almost none of them get beyond the hypothetical stage, but they often attract the attention of amateurs and crackpots and, because many of these ideas sound really cool, they tend to get shared more than the mainstream models and ideas.
 
We can make or collect some kinds of antiparticles such as positrons which now have routine applications such as PET scans in hospitals.
This is obviously not possible if the positrons used have to come from the future, after then scan has been done.
 
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Arman777 said:
Anti-particle is particle that moves back in time ?
An anti-particle always move forward in anti-time....:ok:

:oldwink: ....nhoJ seod os ,tcaf sa siht wonk I
 
OCR said:
An anti-particle always move forward in anti-time....:ok:

:oldwink: ....nhoJ seod os ,tcaf sa siht wonk I
Anti-time ?
 
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Arman777 said:
Anti-time ?

I expect that was a joke on OCR's part.
 
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Drakkith said:
I expect that was a joke on OCR's part.
Yes, it was a joke on me... lol
 
Arman777 said:
Is this really true ?
This part is really true, Arman777... it was a postulate, proposed by John Wheeler to Richard Feynman, alluding to the one-electron universe.... :oldcool:

So... no need to be sad... :ok:
 

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