It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up
It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up
Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades.
Since the discovery of antimatter decades ago, particle physicists have wondered if these particles were repulsed by gravity. Einstein predicted that despite having opposite charges to its regular matter counterparts, antimatter should still behave like matter does concerning gravity. This has been tricky to confirm experimentally since it's hard to make enough antimatter to observe its behavior. Particle physicists have finally pulled it off, using the ALPHA-g experiment at CERN, generating antihydrogen atoms and then dropping them in a 3-meter tall vertical shaft.
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Let's face it, the real motivation behind this experiment was "I really want to make some antimatter booms!".
I've known physicists IRL. Only bunch crazier are biologists.
Also, few groups that I've encountered have had as high of a percentage of kinksters than chemists.
It's all the fumes they're constantly inhaling.
Do bartenders count?
Maybe if they're wearing a labcoat.
Biologists get laid more though