{"id":75459,"date":"2018-01-22T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-device-that-generates-negative-mass"},"modified":"2018-01-22T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T08:22:32","slug":"physicists-say-theyve-created-a-device-that-generates-negative-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-device-that-generates-negative-mass","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say They\u2019ve Created a Device That Generates \u2018Negative Mass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-say-theyve-created-a-device-that-generates-negative-mass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have created what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/vamivakas-microcavity-negative-mass-generate-lasers-290202\/\">they say is the first<\/a> device that\u2019s capable of generating particles that behave as if they have negative mass.<\/p>\n<p>The device generates a strange particle that\u2019s half-light\/half-matter, and as if that isn\u2019t cool enough, it could also be the foundation for a new kind of laser that could operate on far less energy than current technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This builds on recent theoretical work on the behaviour of something called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polariton\">polariton<\/a>, which appears to behave as if it has negative mass \u2013 a mind-blowing property that sees objects move<em> towards<\/em> the force pushing it, instead of being pushed away.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/negative-mass-quasi-particle-polaritons-low-energy-lasers\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/negative-mass-quasi-particle-pol...rgy-lasers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have created what they say is the first device that\u2019s capable of generating particles that behave as if they have negative mass. The device generates a strange particle that\u2019s half-light\/half-matter, and as if that isn\u2019t cool enough, it could also be the foundation for a new kind of laser that could operate on far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75459","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}