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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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[–] Shurimal@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, few groups that I've encountered have had as high of a percentage of kinksters than chemists.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's all the fumes they're constantly inhaling.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe if they're wearing a labcoat.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 3 points 1 year ago

Biologists get laid more though