Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Negative Mass - the world of Quantum Physics gets stranger!

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Washington State University physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. Push it, and unlike every physical object in the world we know, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.

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  1. Mike HeltonApril 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM

    Not enough information is given in this experiment to arrive at a conculsion of "negative mass". For example, when a second laser is directed at a flask of super cooler atoms, the energy entering the atoms acks like a spring - releasing pent up energy from the laser. This then accelerates in a directioin which appears to be opposite that it should thus creating the effect of a "negative mass". If it were truely negative mass, it would float away from the Earth before getting hit with that second laser beam.

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