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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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I am still anticipating the development of an Antimatter Bomb: The ULTIMATE weapon.
What would you put it in?......................
“What would you put it in?......................”
I have thought about that. My answer is a sort of magnetic bottle, a force-field that keeps the matter and anti-matter separate until it is turned off, resulting in instant detonation. The bigger problem is that an antimatter bomb would need to be assembled in a vacuum, using only anti-matter equipment.
You have to use Dilithium crystals!..........
According to String Theory there are 10 dimensions. If you flip a particle over in the right one would the particle then fall up? Could you flip normal matter in one of these other dimensions and turn it into antimatter? It would certainly make for the ultimate power supply if you could!
Imbalance is caused by anti-matter black holes.
Just cause there is more matter here doesn’t mean
there isn’t more anti-matter somewhere/when else.
The future of energy is Personal Tuberous Starch Generators.
Dr. Proton says so.
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