CULT 3 Negative Mass: Matter that's lighter than light

We are excited to announce our third CULT, which will be given by Alex Byrne.

Negative Mass - Matter that's lighter than light
It seems obvious that all matter we see around us has a positive mass. We may have even found it something of a leap of faith to learn that light itself has no mass at all. Although never observed in nature, negative mass is such a widely overlooked idea that assuming m is positive in our working has become instinct. I begin the talk by showing some of the bizarre and beautiful behaviours of negative mass, before considering whether this neglected concept could have an important role to play in modern theoretical physics

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