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A team of Researchers from the Institute of Positive masses attract each other, and if a
Theoretical Physics in Vienna , the negative mass arises, gravity will become a
Bruxelles University in Belgium and IIT repulsive force.
Kanpur in India have combined forces to
find out if negative energy is a possibility. Quantum theory, however, allows for
According to their study, it turns out that it negative energy and it is possible to borrow
is possible ̶ it can be borrowed, much like energy from space. Grumiller continued ,
money from a bank, but it also has to be "For a long time, we did not know about the
returned. maximum amount of this kind of energy
credit and about possible interest rates that
The theory of general relativity makes us have to be paid. Various assumptions about
assume that "the energy is greater than this "interest" (known in the literature as
zero, at all times and everywhere in the "Quantum Interest") have been published,
Universe," said Professor Grumiller , but no comprehensive result has been
Vienna. If we follow the theory of agreed upon."
general relativity, this would
mean that negative energy By linking relative theory and quantum
means negative mass. physics, it was found that energy that is
lower than zero is then permissible, but
only in a specific range, and for a specific
time limit.
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