Matter with negative mass, a seeming impossibility, could actually have existed in the early universe, a new study shows.
A novel solution to Einstein’s equations for gravity permits the existence of negative mass in a rapidly expanding universe like our own, physicists Manu Paranjape and Saoussen Mbarek of the University of Montreal report November 14 in Physical Review D.
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