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Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Why would anyone think it would fall up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Because there is no theory of quantum gravity we have no idea how gravity could interact with anti matter. By showing that antimatter behaves just like matter when interacting with gravity we can learn a lot about it and cut the number of possible theories of quantum gravity in half.

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