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boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory

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Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory

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Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades.
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    For the simple case of electron-positron annihilation, they transform into high-energy photons, whose total energy is equal to the total mass-energy of the electron and positron. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron–positron_annihilation

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