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{{Short description|Concept in physical models}}In theoretical physics, negative mass is a hypothetical type of exotic matter whose mass is of opposite sign to the mass of normal matter, e.g. â1 kg.WEB,weblinkweblink 18 June 2022, subscription, live, Scientists observe liquid with 'negative mass', which turns physics completely backwards, Andrew, Griffin, The Independent, 2017-04-20, 2020-12-11, WEB,weblink Scientists create fluid that seems to defy physics:'Negative mass' reacts opposite to any known physical property we know, CBC News, 2017-04-20, 2020-12-11, Nicole, Mortillaro, Such matter would violate one or more energy conditions and exhibit strange properties such as the oppositely oriented acceleration for an applied force orientation. It is used in certain (wikt:speculative|speculative) hypothetical technologies such as time travel to the past and future,WEB,weblink Time travel is possible â but only if you have an object with infinite mass, The Conversation (website), The Conversation, 2019-01-28, 2020-12-11, Gaurav, Khanna, construction of traversable artificial wormholes, which may also allow for time travel, Krasnikov tubes, the Alcubierre drive, and potentially other types of faster-than-light warp drives. Currently, the closest known real representative of such exotic matter is a region of negative pressure density produced by the Casimir effect.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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In cosmology
In December 2018, astrophysicist Jamie Farnes from the University of Oxford proposed a "dark fluid" theory, related, in part, to notions of gravitationally repulsive negative masses, presented earlier by Albert Einstein, that may help better understand, in a testable manner, the considerable amounts of unknown dark matter and dark energy in the cosmos.WEB, University of Oxford, Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos,weblink 5 December 2018, EurekAlert!, 6 December 2018, University of Oxford, JOURNAL, Farnes, J.S., A Unifying Theory of Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Negative Masses and Matter Creation within a Modified ÎCDM Framework, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 620, A92, 2018, 10.1051/0004-6361/201832898, 2018A&A...620A..92F, 53600834, 1712.07962,In general relativity
Negative mass is any region of space in which for some observers the mass density is measured to be negative. This may occur due to a region of space in which the sum of the three normal stress components (pressure on each of three axes) of the Einstein stressâenergy tensor is larger in magnitude than the mass density. All of these are violations of one or another variant of the positive energy condition of Einstein's general theory of relativity; however, the positive energy condition is not a required condition for the mathematical consistency of the theory.Inertial versus gravitational mass
In considering negative mass, it is important to consider which of these concepts of mass are negative. Ever since Newton first formulated his theory of gravity, there have been at least three conceptually distinct quantities called mass:- inertial mass – the mass m that appears in Newton's second law of motion, F = m a
- "active" gravitational mass – the mass that produces a gravitational field that other masses respond to
- "passive" gravitational mass – the mass that responds to an external gravitational field by accelerating.
Runaway motion
Although no particles are known to have negative mass, physicists (primarily Hermann Bondi in 1957, William B. Bonnor in 1964 and 1989,JOURNAL, Bonnor, W. B., Swaminarayan, N. S., June 1964, An exact solution for uniformly accelerated particles in general relativity, Zeitschrift für Physik, 177, 3, 240â256, 10.1007/BF01375497, 1964ZPhy..177..240B, 122830231, JOURNAL, 10.1007/BF00763458, Negative mass in general relativity, General Relativity and Gravitation, 21, 11, 1143â1157, 1989, Bonnor, W. B., 1989GReGr..21.1143B, 121243887, then Robert L. ForwardJOURNAL, 10.2514/3.23219, Negative matter propulsion, Journal of Propulsion and Power, 6, 28â37, 1990, Forward, R. L., ) have been able to describe some of the anticipated properties such particles may have. Assuming that all three concepts of mass are equivalent according to the equivalence principle, the gravitational interactions between masses of arbitrary sign can be explored, based on the Newtonian approximation of the Einstein field equations. The interaction laws are then:(File:Runaway motion.svg|thumb|200px|right|In yellow, the "preposterous" runaway motion of positive and negative masses described by Bondi and Bonnor.)- Positive mass attracts both other positive masses and negative masses.
- Negative mass repels both other negative masses and positive masses.
|I regard the runaway (or self-accelerating) motion [â¦] so preposterous that I prefer to rule it out by supposing that inertial mass is all positive or all negative.|author= William B. Bonnor|source=in Negative mass in general relativity.}}
Such a couple of objects would accelerate without limit (except a relativistic one); however, the total mass, momentum and energy of the system would remain zero. This behavior is completely inconsistent with a common-sense approach and the expected behavior of "normal" matter. Thomas Gold even hinted that the runaway linear motion could be used in a perpetual motion machine if converted to circular motion:{{Centered pull quote
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, }}But Forward showed that the phenomenon is mathematically consistent and introduces no violation of conservation laws. If the masses are equal in magnitude but opposite in sign, then the momentum of the system remains zero if they both travel together and accelerate together, no matter what their speed:
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p_mathrm{sys} = mv + (-m)v = big(m+(-m)big)v = 0times v = 0.
And equivalently for the kinetic energy:
E_mathrm{k,sys} = tfrac12 mv^2 + tfrac12(-m)v^2 = tfrac12big(m+(-m)big)v^2 = tfrac12(0)v^2 = 0
However, this is perhaps not exactly valid if the energy in the gravitational field is taken into account.Forward extended Bondi's analysis to additional cases, and showed that even if the two masses {{math|m(â)}} and {{math|m(+)}} are not the same, the conservation laws remain unbroken. This is true even when relativistic effects are considered, so long as inertial mass, not rest mass, is equal to gravitational mass.This behaviour can produce bizarre results: for instance, a gas containing a mixture of positive and negative matter particles will have the positive matter portion increase in temperature without bound.{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}} However, the negative matter portion gains negative temperature at the same rate, again balancing out. Geoffrey A. Landis pointed out other implications of Forward's analysis,JOURNAL, G., Landis, Comments on Negative Mass Propulsion, J. Propulsion and Power, 7, 2, 304, 1991, 10.2514/3.23327, including noting that although negative mass particles would repel each other gravitationally, the electrostatic force would be attractive for like charges and repulsive for opposite charges.Forward used the properties of negative-mass matter to create the concept of diametric drive, a design for spacecraft propulsion using negative mass that requires no energy input and no reaction mass to achieve arbitrarily high acceleration.Forward also coined a term, "nullification", to describe what happens when ordinary matter and negative matter meet: they are expected to be able to cancel out or nullify each other's existence. An interaction between equal quantities of positive mass matter (hence of positive energy {{math|E {{=}} mc2}}) and negative mass matter (of negative energy {{math|âE {{=}} âmc2}}) would release no energy, but because the only configuration of such particles that has zero momentum (both particles moving with the same velocity in the same direction) does not produce a collision, such interactions would leave a surplus of momentum.Arrow of time and energy inversion
In general relativity, the universe is described as a Riemannian manifold associated to a metric tensor solution of Einstein's field equations. In such a framework, the runaway motion forbids the existence of negative matter.Some bimetric theories of the universe propose that two parallel universes with an opposite arrow of time may exist instead of one, linked together by the Big Bang and interacting only through gravitation.JOURNAL, A.D., Sakharov, , Cosmological model of the Universe with a time vector inversion, ZhETF, 79, 689â693, 1980, ru, {{full citation needed|reason=original Russian title, full name of journal, DOI or link URL|date=January 2020}} translation in JOURNAL, Cosmological model of the Universe with a time vector inversion, JETP Lett., 52, 349â351, 1980, en, {{full citation needed|reason=translator name, full name of journal, DOI or link URL|date=January 2020}}JOURNAL, Barbour, Julian, Julian Barbour, Koslowski, Tim, Mercati, Flavio, 2014, Identification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time, Physical Review Letters, 113, 18, 181101, 1409.0917, 2014PhRvL.113r1101B, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.181101, 25396357, 25038135, The universe is then described as a manifold associated to two Riemannian metrics (one with positive mass matter and the other with negative mass matter). According to group theory, the matter of the conjugated metric would appear to the matter of the other metric as having opposite mass and arrow of time (though its proper time would remain positive). The coupled metrics have their own geodesics and are solutions of two coupled field equations.JOURNAL, Hossenfelder, S., Sabine Hossenfelder, 15 August 2008, A Bi-Metric Theory with Exchange Symmetry, Physical Review D, 78, 4, 044015, 0807.2838, 2008PhRvD..78d4015H, 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044015, 119152509, The negative matter of the coupled metric, interacting with the matter of the other metric via gravity, could be an alternative candidate for the explanation of dark matter, dark energy, cosmic inflation and an accelerating universe.Gravitational interaction of antimatter
The gravitational interaction of antimatter with matter has been observed by physicists.JOURNAL, Andersson, E. K., Baker, C. J., Bertsche, W., Bhatt, N. M., September 27, 2023, Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter., Nature, 621, 7980, 716â722, 10.1038/s41586-023-06527-1, 37758891, 10533407, 2023Natur.621..716A, As was the consensus among physicists previously, it was experimentally confirmed that gravity attracts both matter and antimatter at the same rate within experimental error.Bubble chamber experiments provide further evidence that antiparticles have the same inertial mass as their normal counterparts. In these experiments, the chamber is subjected to a constant magnetic field that causes charged particles to travel in helical paths, the radius and direction of which correspond to the ratio of electric charge to inertial mass. Particleâantiparticle pairs are seen to travel in helices with opposite directions but identical radii, implying that the ratios differ only in sign; but this does not indicate whether it is the charge or the inertial mass that is inverted. However, particleâantiparticle pairs are observed to electrically attract one another. This behavior implies that both have positive inertial mass and opposite charges; if the reverse were true, then the particle with positive inertial mass would be repelled from its antiparticle partner.In quantum mechanics
In 1928, Paul Dirac's theory of elementary particles, now part of the Standard Model, already included negative solutions.JOURNAL, 10.1098/rspa.1928.0023, The Quantum Theory of the Electron, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 117, 778, 610â624, 1928, Dirac, P. A. M., 1928RSPSA.117..610D, free, The Standard Model is a generalization of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and negative mass is already built into the theory.Morris, Thorne and YurtseverJOURNAL, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1446, 10038800, Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition, Physical Review Letters, 61, 13, 1446â1449, 1988, Morris, Michael S., Thorne, Kip S., Yurtsever, Ulvi, 1988PhRvL..61.1446M,weblink pointed out that the quantum mechanics of the Casimir effect can be used to produce a locally mass-negative region of spaceâtime. In this article, and subsequent work by others, they showed that negative matter could be used to stabilize a wormhole. Cramer et al. argue that such wormholes might have been created in the early universe, stabilized by negative-mass loops of cosmic string.JOURNAL, astro-ph/9409051, 10.1103/PhysRevD.51.3117, Natural wormholes as gravitational lenses, Physical Review D, 51, 6, 3117â3120, 1995, Cramer, John G., Forward, Robert L., Morris, Michael S., Visser, Matt, Benford, Gregory, Landis, Geoffrey A., 1995PhRvD..51.3117C, 10018782, 42837620, Stephen Hawking has argued that negative energy is a necessary condition for the creation of a closed timelike curve by manipulation of gravitational fields within a finite region of space;BOOK, Hawking, Stephen, The Future of Spacetime, W. W. Norton, 2002, 96, 978-0-393-02022-9, registration,weblink this implies, for example, that a finite Tipler cylinder cannot be used as a time machine.Schrödinger equation
For energy eigenstates of the Schrödinger equation, the wavefunction is wavelike wherever the particle's energy is greater than the local potential, and exponential-like (evanescent) wherever it is less. Naively, this would imply kinetic energy is negative in evanescent regions (to cancel the local potential). However, kinetic energy is an operator in quantum mechanics, and its expectation value is always positive, summing with the expectation value of the potential energy to yield the energy eigenvalue.For wavefunctions of particles with zero rest mass (such as photons), this means that any evanescent portions of the wavefunction would be associated with a local negative massâenergy. However, the Schrödinger equation does not apply to massless particles; instead the KleinâGordon equation is required.In theory of vibrations and metamaterials
(File:A mechanical model giving rise to the negative effective mass effect..jpg|alt=A core with mass m1 is connected internally through the spring with k2 to a shell with mass m1. The system is subjected to the sinusoidal force.|thumb|Figure 1. A core with mass m_2 is connected internally through the spring with k_2 to a shell with mass m_1. The system is subjected to the sinusoidal force F(t).|left)The mechanical model giving rise to the negative effective mass effect is depicted in Figure 1. A core with mass m_2 is connected internally through the spring with constant k_2 to a shell with mass m_1. The system is subjected to the external sinusoidal force F(t)=F_{0} sinomega t. If we solve the equations of motion for the masses m_1 and m_2 and replace the entire system with a single effective mass m_{text{eff}} we obtain:JOURNAL, Milton, Graeme W, Willis, John R, 2007-03-08, On modifications of Newton's second law and linear continuum elastodynamics,weblink Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 463, 2079, 855â880, 10.1098/rspa.2006.1795, 2007RSPSA.463..855M, 122990527, JOURNAL, Chan, C. T., Li, Jensen, Fung, K. H., 2006-01-01, On extending the concept of double negativity to acoustic waves,weblink Journal of Zhejiang University Science A, en, 7, 1, 24â28, 10.1631/jzus.2006.A0024, 120899746, 1862-1775, JOURNAL, Huang, H. H., Sun, C. T., Huang, G. L., 2009-04-01, On the negative effective mass density in acoustic metamaterials,weblink International Journal of Engineering Science, en, 47, 4, 610â617, 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2008.12.007, 0020-7225, JOURNAL, Yao, Shanshan, Zhou, Xiaoming, Hu, Gengkai, 2008-04-14, Experimental study on negative effective mass in a 1D massâspring system, New Journal of Physics, 10, 4, 043020, 10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/043020, 2008NJPh...10d3020Y, 1367-2630, free, m_{text{eff}}=m_{1}+{{m_2omega_0^2}over{omega_0^2-omega^2}},where omega_0=sqrt{k_2 over m_2}.(File:Equivalent mechanical scheme of electron gas in ionic lattice..jpg|alt=Free electrons gas is embedded into the ionic lattice (the left sketch). The equivalent mechanical scheme of the system (right sketch).|thumb|Figure 2. Free electrons gas m_2 is embedded into the ionic lattice m_1; omega_p is the plasma frequency (the left sketch). The equivalent mechanical scheme of the system (right sketch).)When the frequency omega approaches omega_0 from above the effective mass m_{text{eff}} will be negative.The negative effective mass (density) becomes also possible based on the electro-mechanical coupling exploiting plasma oscillations of a free electron gas (see Figure 2).JOURNAL, Bormashenko, Edward, Legchenkova, Irina, April 2020, Negative Effective Mass in Plasmonic Systems, Materials, en, 13, 8, 1890, 10.3390/ma13081890, 7215794, 32316640, 2020Mate...13.1890B, free, JOURNAL, Bormashenko, Edward, Legchenkova, Irina, Frenkel, Mark, August 2020, Negative Effective Mass in Plasmonic Systems II: Elucidating the Optical and Acoustical Branches of Vibrations and the Possibility of Anti-Resonance Propagation, Materials, en, 13, 16, 3512, 10.3390/ma13163512, 7476018, 32784869, 2020Mate...13.3512B, free, The negative mass appears as a result of vibration of a metallic particle with a frequency of omega which is close the frequency of the plasma oscillations of the electron gas m_2 relatively to the ionic lattice m_1. The plasma oscillations are represented with the elastic spring k_2=omega_p^2m_2, where omega_p is the plasma frequency. Thus, the metallic particle vibrated with the external frequency Ï is described by the effective mass
m_{text{eff}}=m_1+{{m_2omega_p^2}over{omega_p^2-omega^2}},
which is negative when the frequency Ï approaches omega_p from above. Metamaterials exploiting the effect of the negative mass in the vicinity of the plasma frequency were reported.See also
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