Exotic Matter: An Analysis

Exotic matter is a very interesting topic, and we're going to dive into it. First, I'll cover some ideas that support exotic matter, then I will add some of my thoughts on how I think exotic matter will work in many different areas of physics as exotic matter itself. I won't be referring to exotic matter as a substitute for dark matter, dark energy, inflation, or other substitutes, though these are possibilities. My only idea is that it is the borders in between each universe in a multiverse, which keeps each universe pretty sepereate, but that's just an idea. NOTE: My definition of exotic matter is matter with negative mass. Yes, negative mass.

While this idea of exotic matter sounds outlandish, there are actually some promising results that hint towards the existence of dark matter. In 2017, physicists at Washington State University observed some negative mass-like properties in rubidium atoms.  In 1988, physicists noticed that in the Casimir effect, which typically is used to play around with quantum fluctuations, a negative mass region could be produced. In fact, Stephen Hawking argued that exotic matter must have to exist in the universe. (credits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass#cite_note-28 for all the preceding information). My personal opinion is that we don't see exotic matter because large amounts of it, under Newtonian classical gravity, would just be pushed toward the edges of our universe. This is obviously a typical theoretical physicist's fallback to any prediction, but that's just how we have to explain the lack of exotic matter sighting.

 Now we will look at the effects of exotic matter in different areas of physics. Typically the effects in general relativity are discussed, but I'll still mention them, along with what I believe are new discussions about exotic matter and how it works in quantum mechanics. And how exotic matter works in chemical and nuclear reactions among other exotic matter is likely very similar to matter/matter reactions, but who knows.

1. Relativity: Exotic matter could be super useful because it could keep wormholes open for longer. If we definitively discover exotic matter and learn to make a lot of it, this could be the future of space travel, as basically exotic matter produces a negative force of gravity and prevents the normal attraction of gravity, which in wormholes is super high. Then keeping wormholes open for longer and making them bigger allows us humans to actually use them. For special relativity, the mass would still be relative along with all the other relative effects that occur from moving faster, so nothing crazy there it seems. Of course, because of E=mc^2, you would have negative energy with negative mass, so you could use negative energy to reduce too high amounts of energy, per se. This could lead to less deadly or harder-to-handle nuclear bombs, and likely other applications too, depending on how we can use the negative energy. 

2. Quantum Mechanics: The following discussion is something that hasn't been discussed before, according to my research. First of all, looking at a 1-D time-dependent Schrodinger Equation, we can see that a negative mass would give us totally inverse curvatures of the wavefunction over space (-(hbar)^2/(2m))(second derivative of psi with respect to x [position]).