Don't dismiss negative mass
The idea of matter with negative mass is mind-boggling: A –5 kg object would repel a +5 kg object, while the +5 kg object would attract the –5 kg object. As a result, the two of them would move off in the same direction along the line joining the two, with the negative-mass object following the positive-mass object indefinitely. However, despite that craziness, some physicists open to the idea that the universe contains negative-mass matter.
Theoretical physicist Manu Paranjape explains why.
Article:
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20170524a/full/
Photo:
The large-scale structure of the universe, simulated here, may have been influenced by the presence of negative mass during the inflationary epoch. Credit: Springel et al. (Virgo consortium), Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
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"The idea that matter could come toward you when you push it away" sounds like sexual harassment. Negative mass is likely male:)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was first reading about negative mass, everything was fine, right up until the attraction/repulsion thing, and then my brain kinda broke. I love thinking about it, though.
ReplyDeleteThat's the only way we'll get hoverboards and Jetson flying cars
ReplyDeleteWarp drives. Dark energy is ambient pollution from alien warp drives leaking negative mass. Fermi Paradox solved!
ReplyDeleteThanks for shared Miss Corina....:-)
ReplyDeleteI'm now searching for both negative magnets and positive magnets... :-)
ReplyDelete"Maybe there's destructive interference between the physical possibility of magnetic monopoles and the physical possibility of negative mass, so that neither occurs because both can"
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