Posted on 12/05/2018 9:02:07 AM PST by ETL
“There would be quantum virtual particles popping into and out of existence.”
And dogs and cats living together!
However, the theory is not nearly as weird as it may sound. Turns out that we cannot account for some very major observations given the physics as we know it. But, perhaps we should discount this because according to progressives, “the science is settled”. (Note: that’ll never be spoken by a true scientist. One only hears it from science illiterates such as the MSM and politicians.)
I’ll look in the garage. There’s a lot of stuff out there.
Let me know if you find my sock.
If dark matter and dark energy are so weird,
why is dark chocolate so good?
“I think the steady state model predates the big bang model.”
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Yup, it does. For a long time it was thought that things were pretty much they way they’d always been cosmos-wise. Then the Big Bang came along and blew the old notion up.
There was a time when a scientist would have realized that if his solution required negative mass, it was literal nonsense.
Today you get millions in grant money for it.
I’ll bet The Little Dog took it!
He was running around with a sock this morning!
Was it a black sock?
Wait a minute.
My left foot is kind of cold.
Never mind.
It was my sock.
The filthy little sock snatcher.
“its arrow of time.”
Only humans can speak a word/sound that macht nichts ..
Unicorn,mermaid,and on and on.....
For later
I need to understand the implications of negative mass further to accept this theory. The main problem is that negative mass matter would be able to exceed the speed of light based on Einstein’s special relativity equations and we have never observed any such phenomena. Violating the light constant velocity would also undermine the core concept of causality between fundamental particles and forces in the universe. Break out the hyperdrives and time machines. I’ll wait for the confirmation before I get too attached to this idea.
Yes, he outlines some of the history of the ideas here:
Lol! THat about sums up our understanding of fundamental reality.
Interesting thought experiment. I’m going to hatch that on some of the kids in my Troop.
In Tesla’s day it was still ‘ether’.
The article describes what is called:
a fluid [ether?] which possesses 'negative mass."
IMO, for waves to exist, there must be a medium for the waves to travel through. Otherwise a photon transitioning from particle state in the vacuum of space to a wave state in a glass lens, would loose its wave shifted origin.
Are we back to a type of 'ether', now called "a fluid" in this new theory?
It may not be possible to remove all the energy from space.
“space-time” might not exist without the energy of the vacuum (quantum field).
Negative mass is a nonsense concept. The implication of it is that we have abandoned all reason and logic whatsoever by taking it seriously, and are now saying whatever it takes to get the next grant.
Could potentially explain the "negative gravity-like" force causing the universe to accelerate in its expansion. Can't rule out anything too quickly.
There isn't much that's actually new here, and most of it has been speculated about in the context of General Relativity for a long time. The real question is whether vacuum exerts zero, positive (pressure) or negative (attraction).
That can be done in the Einstein Field Equations without the "negative mass" taking on the same significance as the ordinary, inertial mass which cannot exceed the speed of light.
” Calling Dr. Cooper “
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