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by Nasrudith 2759 days ago
Screwily to our intuitions negative mass goes in the opposite direction of its acceleration.

It still goes away but the acceleration is in the same direction. It is weird and easy to be confused.

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I think you meant to say that the mass accelerates opposite to forces acting upon it.

An idealized -M + M = 0 pair of particles (one normal, one negative mass) could experience runaway acceleration. Author touches on this in the paper as a potential source for the incredibly high-energy extra-galactic cosmic rays.

Granted, the paper describes a model in which something that acts like a particle with negative mass exerts this force upon things, but has no claims as to what a physical manifestation of this would look like.

Damn, you're right, there goes the hoverboard.