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1 posted on 04/30/2013 8:42:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Would an antimatter apple fall upward from the earth?

Yet another thing to keep me awake at night.

2 posted on 04/30/2013 8:48:11 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
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No, it would pretty much interact with the atmosphere of normal matter and convert at 100% efficiency and rip most of the atmosphere off of the planet, along with large parts of the crust, and maybe some of the mantle.

Even cooks know that much. I NEVER ordered the anti-matter apples, and if they showed up on the back dock, I'd send them back without opening the box.

/johnny

3 posted on 04/30/2013 8:52:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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If apple fell up we would never get new apple trees. Apples have lived to around 150 years. So after a few hundred years all we would have to eat but be potatoes and onions. Life on earth would end soon afterward because every one would be fat and have bad breath. Well this is my theory.

“I think it’s true, but it’s almost an embarrassment that I don’t have evidence for it yet,”ThomasThomas said. “There’s the faintest possibility that the theory are fundamentally wrong.”


4 posted on 04/30/2013 9:00:23 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Normal isn't normal anymore.)
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Antimatter still has normal gravity. We’ve been playing with it for quite a while, and if it reacted oppositely we’d know.

Now an antimatter apple on the Bizarro world...


5 posted on 04/30/2013 9:00:26 PM PDT by DBrow
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Well we have to look at the anti-logic particle, the Democrat. It goes against all logic yet as we have seen with Michael Moore it’s mass can still dent the earth through gravity.


7 posted on 04/30/2013 9:03:09 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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"Need more antimatter? Load me up lads."

8 posted on 04/30/2013 9:19:42 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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How soon until these eggheads do something that can’t be un-f***ed?


10 posted on 04/30/2013 9:22:53 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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“Scientists at CERN are making atoms of antihydrogen to try to pin down what those differences might be.”

May I ask, what are they making the antihydrogen atoms from ?


13 posted on 04/30/2013 10:28:36 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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"One way to change the theories and make them work would be to allow for antigravity."

Works for me.


14 posted on 04/30/2013 10:33:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Would an antimatter apple fall upward from the earth?

No, it would fall to earth and blow up the planet.
Now, an anti-gravity apple would fall up.

20 posted on 05/01/2013 2:15:56 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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But they're also willing to consider the possibility that the ideas were wrong in the first place

Based on the history of science this is a pretty good bet.

21 posted on 05/01/2013 2:23:10 AM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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I’ve been taking pro-biotics and antibiotics. Wondered if I would explode if they came in contact...

never mind....


23 posted on 05/01/2013 3:49:36 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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“Gee, Mr. Science, what are you going to teach us today?”

“Today, Bobby, we’re going to learn about antimatter and apples.”

“Gosh, that sounds keen!”

“Ha ha! Yes, Bobby, I suppose you could call it keen. Here, you see, we have a bowl of apples.”

“Those look like oranges, Mr. Science.”

“Apples are out of season around here at this time of year, so we’ll use these lovely oranges instead.”

“But, if you’re talking about apples, shouldn’t you use apples, Mr. Science?”

“It doesn’t matter, Bobby.”

“Oh, if it doesn’t matter, then it must be antimatter.”

“Does the station have a contract with you, Bobby?”

“Yep, and my Dad is a lawyer.”

“OK then. If I drop this orange, er, I mean apple, will it fall to the floor or shoot up to the ceiling?”

“If it’s an antimatter orange, we’re going to have big problems right here, Mr. Science.”

“We already have problems, Bobby. Our ratings are way down. Some viewers think I should replace you with a monkey.”

“So he’d be like an antimatter monkey then.”

“I don’t know if anything matters anymore. Have you seen Mr. Science’s ‘Special Science Formula’?”

“You mean your Vodka? It’s in that cabinet over there.”

“Now, Junior Scientists, Mr. Science is going to mix his ‘Special Science Formula’ with some juice from this antimatter orange, I mean apple, and then we’re going to have a closer look at Bobby’s contract. Remember that Mr. Science is going to be in the WalMart parking lot this Saturday signing autographs and selling antimatter oranges, er, I mean apples.”


25 posted on 05/01/2013 5:11:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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