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Antimatter persay doesnt have negative weight, but if Geoff could invent an antigraviton generator then he would have some sucess. However the graviton hasnt even been discovered yet, let alone its antimatter equivalent.
More useless info from the world of physics.
Santa Claus is the mangled name of Saint Nicolas.
Saint Nicolas is the Roman-Catholic saint for children because, according to the legends, he was a bishop in a Mediterranean country (either Turkey or Spain), lived during the early Middle Ages, and was supposed to either have secretly given money to 3 sisters who needed a dowry, or saved several children from a butchers cooking pot by taking their remains and bringing them back to life.
Hence the tradition that this saint does good things for children (women in those times were oficially regarded as children by the way).
You just missed his Birthday, it was on the 6th.
Wouldnt an anti-graviton generator cause objects to be propelled away from the source? You could push you opponent around without even coming into contact and never hit the side wall either.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......Geordi, make it so.
Have to be one hell of a Antigraviton generator to cancel out the local vicinity of gravitons.
Just to confuse. You do realise old St. Nicolas is the Patron Saint of thieves???
You do realise old St. Nicolas is the Patron Saint of thieves???
Yep! He has an uncanny knack of stealing all my money and buying presents and food with it :)
Not a hundred percent sure, Karoline, but if you have a generator that had the right strength then in theory you could get an object to float, i.e. have no weight.
I dont want to ruin what was an otherwise entirely practical idea, but Im not sure adding antimatter to a robot would reduce its weight. Its mass would be smaller, but gravity produces an acceleration dependent on mass again which is now negative, so an unconstrained blob of antimatter would fall towards the earth rather than away from it so far as I can see. Perhaps someone with better physics skills than me can predict its effect on RRs scales.
As for Christmas... Santa would be Bristol & West who are buying me my first house, which I hope to be in by Christmas, which will give me much more space and my own garage to work on Jalapeno and Seranno and my aging car, and no-one will mind if I leave a couple of gearboxes disassembled on the kitchen table there :)
Jim, what you have said is true, antimatter does have normal mass hence would weight the same as normal matter on earth. But the graviton is what causes an object to have weight, so the antigraviton has the opposite effect on space and time. So in effect would push an object away from any massive object such as the earth.
But this is getting too indepth now and such a device is likely to weight several hundred tons.
Im getting a new tent for Christmas, one that is easier to put up and that doesnt leak, as people who have attended some events this year can vouch for.