{"id":36062,"date":"2017-04-12T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-fluid-with-negative-mass"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:12","slug":"physicists-say-theyve-created-a-fluid-with-negative-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-fluid-with-negative-mass","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say They\u2019ve Created a Fluid With \u2018Negative Mass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-fluid-with-negative-mass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US say they\u2019ve created a fluid with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negative_mass\">negative mass<\/a> in the lab\u2026 which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>What it means is that, unlike pretty much every other known physical object, when you push this fluid, it accelerates backwards instead of moving forwards. Such an oddity could tell scientists about some of the strange behaviour that happens within black holes and neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s take a step back for a second here, because how can something have negative mass?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-created-a-fluid-with-negative-mass#.WO5rpi3lIJI.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-created-a...I.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the US say they\u2019ve created a fluid with negative mass in the lab\u2026 which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds. What it means is that, unlike pretty much every other known physical object, when you push this fluid, it accelerates backwards instead of moving forwards. Such an oddity could tell scientists about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58098,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062\/revisions\/58098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}