Negative Mass

[The Wookie]

Surprised to see that no-one has brought this up:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/1704...

Seems pretty significant to me, or is it something that was expected in the scientific community?

[AshVX220]

The Wookie said:

Surprised to see that no-one has brought this up:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/1704...

Seems pretty significant to me, or is it something that was expected in the scientific community?

The first steps in developing Anti-Gravity?

[Dogwatch]

interesting for parties though I doubt it will ever get outside the lab.

[rolex]

Dogwatch said:

interesting for parties though I doubt it will ever get outside the lab.

Agreed, if you pushed it out the lab it would just go back inside.

[AshVX220]

rolex said:

Dogwatch said:

interesting for parties though I doubt it will ever get outside the lab.

Agreed, if you pushed it out the lab it would just go back inside.

I imagine trying to get it any where would be massively frustrating!!

[Efbe]

has this been corroborated by others yet?

[The Wookie]

AshVX220 said:

The first steps in developing Anti-Gravity?

Looks like not as it's only inertial mass, not gravitational mass but it would be interesting to know if there any implications for space propulsion

[SystemParanoia]

sweet

[F---Knuckle]

My children clearly have negative mass.

[MechTech]

Crazy thought off the top of my head.... what about a large rotating mass up against another large (but fixed) static mass. The rotating is on an eccentric cam that comes closest when heading from rear of spacecraft to the front... negative mass has it's effect more in one direction than the other and hay presto... fwd propulsion

[F---Knuckle]

MechTech said:

Crazy thought off the top of my head.... what about a large rotating mass up against another large (but fixed) static mass. The rotating is on an eccentric cam that comes closest when heading from rear of spacecraft to the front... negative mass has it's effect more in one direction than the other and hay presto... fwd propulsion

Now imagine that on a conveyor belt moving in the opposite direction at take off :headexplode:

[Efbe]

I bet the sensors were pointing the wrong way. No chance this is real

[Atomic12C]

Speaking to my scientist mate recently and he says this "negative mass" issue is being mis-reported.
Its not "negative mass"..... it is "negative effective mass" which is a huge difference on how people think about what is going on.

Negative mass implies there's such a thing as something having well, 'negative mass', which then implies anti-gravity etc. etc.
This is apparently not the case at all.

Negative effective mass just means that some strings of molecules acted differently to what is usually expected when observed under certain conditions. Instead of attracting they repelled each other, but not due to electric charge or other usual effects.