Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up


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.

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Universe Today

Read more on:

Photo of Antimatter

Antimatter

Photo of Gravity

Gravity

Related news:

News photo

Could Modified Gravity Be the Answer to Planet 9?

News photo

Earth's Smallest Flowering Plant Can Handle 20X Earth's Gravity

News photo

Miniaturized Jumping Robots Could Study An Asteroid's Gravity