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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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boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades.
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    Would an anti-banana give off normal matter?

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      Does it matter?

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        I don’t think it would antimatter

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          Argument anihilated!

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      AFAIK, yes, you might wanna look into β± and β־-decay

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      AFAIK, yes.

      There are some very small differences between matter and anti-matter, but I don’t think any of them affect radioactivity.

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