Can Mass Be Negative?

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Sergei Soloviev, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de ToulouseFollow

Publication Date

1-2018

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-17-89b

To appear in Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2018.

Abstract

Overcoming the force of gravity is an important part of space travel and a significant obstacle preventing many seemingly reasonable space travel schemes to become practical. Science fiction writers like to imagine materials that may help to make space travel easier. Negative mass -- supposedly causing anti-gravity -- is one of the popular ideas in this regard. But can mass be negative? In this paper, we show that negative masses are not possible -- their existence would enable us to create energy out of nothing, which contradicts to the energy conservation law.