What happens if you lift negative mass?

If you pushed on it, it would accelerate towards you. So to “lift” a negative mass, you would push “down” on it, although given that gravity would work opposite for this object, you need to think carefully about what direction is down.

Is it possible to have a negative mass?

In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same direction as the force applied to it; this relationship is described by Isaac Newton’s Second Law of Motion. But in theory, matter can have negative mass in the same sense that an electric charge can be positive or negative.

What does a negative mass change mean?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In theoretical physics, negative mass is a type of exotic matter whose mass is of opposite sign to the mass of normal matter, e.g. −1 kg.

Does negative mass repel gravity?

First, gravity is always attractive and never repulsive. Presumably, if negative mass existed, it would be repelled by objects with positive mass such as the earth or sun. But there is no negative mass to cancel out gravity. If negative mass did exist, you could use it as a form of anti-gravity.

What is the negative mass of matter?

We are used to speaking of positive and negative charges when describing particles that make up atoms, so negative mass would be mass but with the opposite charge to the positive (physical) mass we experience daily. Its properties and interactions, however, would be diametrically opposed to those of positive mass.

What would happen if you have two negative mass in motion?

Runaway motion. Two negative masses would repel because of their negative inertial masses. For different signs however, there is a push that repels the positive mass from the negative mass, and a pull that attracts the negative mass towards the positive one at the same time.

What would happen if the Higgs field had negative mass?

Negative mass would reduce the mass of surrounding particles. Basically it would reduce the interaction with the Higgs field, since this interaction gives particles mass. The negative mass itself would move at the speed of light, (i.e. the speed of causality) because particles without mass must.

Is it possible to have a ball of negative mass?

That might happen if it was possible to have a ball of negative mass! Recently, in 2017, scientists at Washington State University created a Bose-Einstein superfluid with negative effective mass, which means that it effectively behaves as though it has negative mass.