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Friday, 29 September 2023

CERN experiment confirms antimatter falls down, not up

Antimatter experiences the same force of gravity as regular matter. Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades. Scientists at CERN made a thin gas of antihydrogen and dropped it from the top of a 3-metre-tall vertical shaft — a delicate task, because if the antiatoms come into contact with any regular matter, they both cease to exist.

Dr CLÉiRIGh at 00:00
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