Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!alan From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Procyon's Promise Message-ID: <205@drivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:33:41 EDT Article-I.D.: drivax.205 Posted: Wed Aug 14 14:33:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:18:37 EDT References: <320@baylor.UUCP> <1491@shark.UUCP> <153@iitcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 18 Xref: linus net.books:2085 net.sf-lovers:8458 > As I understand it, black holes can be made of matter or anti-matter, > or whatever, but it doesn't matter. From outside of the black hole > all we can detect is its mass, its charge, and its spin. We can't tell > whether the stuff inside originally went in as matter, antimatter, > energy, or whatever. Antimatter black holes might exist, but we couldn't > know if they were. > Mark T. Draughn I have always been a little confused about matter/anti-matter stuff. Does anti-matter have negative mass? If it does then wouldn't a black hole made of anti-matter have negative mass? I'm a programmer jim, not a physicist. :-) -- Alan Fargusson. { ihnp4, amdahl, mot }!drivax!alan