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Did someone confirm negative mass? I wouldn't hold your breath on trying to understand negative mass. It is akin to time travel. I'm not saying it isn't possibl
by deviantbit 3y ago
Did someone confirm negative mass? I wouldn't hold your breath on trying to understand negative mass. It is akin to time travel. I'm not saying it isn't possible to understand it, there are probably better things to waste your time with.
When I was an undergraduate I tried to develop a coordinate system for mass, where the center of mass of the universe was the origin, and the axes where the three fundamental forces. Then I found out from a professor that John Wheeler, who was very much alive at that time, had attempted it and I kinda gave up after that.
Later, in graduate school I learned about Wheelers geometrodynamics ("mass without mass"). Talk about paradoxes. I don't know how you resolve all of those paradoxes. I'm guessing that is why he gave up.
If negative mass were confirmed it would be a seismic shift in physics. I'm getting old, and don't keep up anymore. Let me know if it was confirmed, or what other research has been done to substantiate the idea.
- Analemma_ 3y agoIt has never been confirmed or even really hinted at by either theory or experiment, but it is fun to do Newton's laws using negative mass and note that they all still work out (e.g. conservation of energy and momentum still hold) even when the macroscopic phenomena become very weird.
- codethief 3y agoAt least at the level of isolated gravitational systems (where one can define the so-called ADM mass of a spacetime), mass cannot be negative under pretty general assumptions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_energy_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_energy_theorem
- StackOverlord 3y agohttps://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com/negativemass https://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com/negativemass