Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 4(4), pp. 507 - 552
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ANTIMATTER AND PSEUDOTACHYONIC RELATIVITY

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Dias Ferreira L.T.

ABSTRACT

A new conception of antiparticle is proposed as the subluminal “image” of a tachyonic homologous particle. After a first article on the subject, we begin by studying the pseudotachyonic transformation for energy, linear momentum and mass. We'll finally conclude that: • antiparticles must have negative energy (and massive ones also negative masses) and opposite electric charge; • antiphotons behave differently from photons; • this difference appears, for instance, in the Compton effect generalized to antiparticles; • the annihilation of colliding homologous particles and pair creation through colliding particles (this one yet an open problem) doesn't exactly fit in its standard description; • antimatter is characterized by negative absolute temperatures and the inversion of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics.