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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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- alternative_factor ( @alternative_factor@kbin.social ) 22•1 year ago
Fucking love these looney tunes physics headlines
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Darn, was hoping I could tape some to the bottom of my shoes and walk into space
- AlolanYoda ( @AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ) 15•1 year ago
Tape some onto the bottom of your shoes and you’re blasted into space so maybe there’s something in that idea
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
What you are looking for is Cavorite
- GiantRobotTRex ( @GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
You don’t want antimatter, you want flubber.
- Shurimal ( @Shurimal@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
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.
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
Also, few groups that I’ve encountered have had as high of a percentage of kinksters than chemists.
- idiomaddict ( @idiomaddict@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Do bartenders count?
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
Maybe if they’re wearing a labcoat.
Biologists get laid more though
- duxbellorum ( @duxbellorum@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
We’re one step closer to clean burning anti-matter bombs like from DaVinci Code
- AnonStoleMyPants ( @AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
If the explosion is as pretty as in the movie, thwn I’m all for it.