I understand “sock puppet” but I guess I’m rather dense on the “trolling” concept.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=96752
No, that’s not trolling. Misleading thread titles are really frowned upon in the serious forums, but I think this was just his attempt to restate a not-very-easy-to-formulate question. Negative mass (if it exists) would imply negative “scalar momentum” (so called). I majored in physics in college and as you can see, I would have trouble formulating the question intelligently.
For the definition of trolling, see the Staff Report What is a troll?
It would have been trolling if the thread title had been something like, “Can a Big Black Stud Use Either Negative Mass or Negative Momentum on a Bound and Gagged Helpless White Female?” and then had said, “What I mean to say was…but saying ‘big black stud’ will probably get more people to respond to this thread.”
The key words for distinguishing trolling, I think, are, “deliberately inflammatory and/or insulting”, and maybe it’s just because IANA physicist, but I fail to see anything inflammatory or insulting about either negative “mass” or negative “momentum”.
Thanks. I can see clearer, now.