Posted on 01/06/2022 12:01:44 PM PST by Red Badger
Scientists have found that antimatter particles fall down, not up, just like regular matter...
Physicists at CERN have discovered that antimatter falls down. Sure, it sounds like an obvious thing, but scientists haven’t yet been able to confirm that it responds to gravity in exactly the same way as regular matter does. A new experiment provides the best answer so far.
Antimatter is much like the matter that makes up everything around us, with one important difference: its particles have the opposite electric charge. And that simple difference has some major implications – whenever a particle and its antiparticle meet, they annihilate each other.
Thankfully for us matter-based beings, antimatter is extremely rare in the universe, but nobody really knows why. The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have ended up annihilating the entire contents of the universe billions of years ago. The fact that we’re here today to ask the question shows that some unknown factor created an imbalance.
So physicists are studying antimatter closely to see if there are any other differences between it and regular matter, besides charge, which could account for the imbalance. The Standard Model says that there shouldn’t be any other difference, so if scientists find something, it could open a whole new world of physics.
That means going right back to basics to examine antimatter. For instance, every element absorbs and emits different wavelengths of light, producing a unique fingerprint called an emission spectrum. Antimatter should have the same spectrum as its matter counterpart, but it wasn’t until 2016 that CERN scientists finally checked. Sure enough, antihydrogen was found to have the same spectrum as hydrogen.
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Maybe it doesn’t fall. Maybe it just is.
Recall Fudd’s First Law of Opposition — If you push something hard enough it will fall over.
Maybe it does not matter.
Spok! Don’t mess with the dylithium crystals, dammit. I just lost hot water in the shower.
Vulcans...
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Can’t sleep at night without definitive answer from heroes of CERN!
Gross oversimplification!
E.g.: The neutron has no charge, yet also has an anti-particle: the antineutron.
Regards,
Rises = up
Gross over simplifications are necessary for the regular person in this matter.
If it wasn’t simplified, no one could follow it.
It’s either big bang or dark matter.
The anti particle has less gravitas.
RE: Gross oversimplification!
Getting a little rough on this thread. If the two of you remove your reading glasses and one slaps the other with a white glove, the donnybrook is on and I want to stay well clear. 😇
The science propaganda mills (for budget-protection) at CERN (which is an excellent organization) are, clearly, working overtime...
They are about to start up that huge accelerator again in a couple of weeks. With twice the power it had before. Kind of creepy.
Duel! Duel I say! Like gentlemen, with engraved and gold inlayed black powder pistols, in an area shaded with oak trees.
RE: Duel! Duel I say! Like gentlemen, with engraved and gold inlayed black powder pistols, in an area shaded with oak trees.
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I hope this can be settled before it comes to that juncture.
Remember the loss sustained when this happened:
The duel fought between U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, on July 11, 1804, ....
No one else actually saw the duel, as others present turned their backs to maintain deniability about their involvement and later disagreed over who fired first and when. What is known is that Burr’s shot mortally wounded Hamilton, who was rowed back to New York and died 36 hours later.
A history documentary said Hamilton “wasted a shot” as proven by a hole in tree bark.
Look for a peaceful solution.
Snow falls UP, Charlie Brown.
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