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It's interesting because negative mass is a prerequisite for superluminal travel via Alcubierre warp drives. What these examples show is that negative mass is a
by canjobear 4y ago
It's interesting because negative mass is a prerequisite for superluminal travel via Alcubierre warp drives. What these examples show is that negative mass is an incredibly counterintuitive concept, probably impossible in the real world.
- hinkley 4y agoOr we drop the Higgs field to a lower state trying to create it, wiping out the entire visible universe at the speed of light and replacing it with something new.
- tomrod 4y ago> wiping out the entire visible universe at the speed of light and replacing it with something new ... and wonderful?
- kibwen 4y agoImpossible to say whether it would be wonderful, because it would change the physics of the universe in ways that we cannot predict. Here's a good video on it, comfortingly entitled "The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI
- hinkley 4y agoYou wouldn’t know because you would turn to goo.
- tomrod 4y agoLess than that, if I understand right. Perhaps quantum foam.
- hinkley 4y agoTemporarily, then you’d explode or merge together into new kinds of matter. Some of your molecules would rearrange based on the new physics. The good news is you probably won’t see it coming because nerves are slower than the speed of light. Hard to say if you’d experience anything after.