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Re: virtual particles preferred frame?



Can you provide a citation which describes the negative
energy-imaginary momentum virtual particle theory? I've never seen it
described in any physics book I've read.

If momentum is imaginary, is the mass real and velocity imaginary, or
is the mass imaginary and the velocity real, or both? Imaginary mass
and real velocity sounds like tachyons to me.

I'm not skeptical because negative energy-imaginary momentum is just
different than the explanation I described, and not even because I've
never seen it in any physics book, but, rather, because it raises all
kinds of questions for which I don't see an answer. In fact, it seems
to create a whole new area of physics (e.g., tachyons). For example,
how does an imaginary momentum particle move under the influence of a
magnetic field? The Lorenz force is F = qv x B; is the force real or
imaginary; and, since a = F/m, is the acceleration real or imaginary?

Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
St. Charles County Community College
St. Peters, MO
gcarlson@mail.win.org

Subject: Re: virtual particles preferred frame?
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 04:47:34 -0500
From: John Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM

If you work out the consequences of having the negative kinetic
energy and imaginary momentum that I describe, you find that the
probability falls off exponentially over a distance h-bar/mc -- about the
same length-scale that Sakurai gives.