Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter
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Published in Nature · View the paper (DOI)
A new experiment at CERN has shown that gravity pulls antimatter downward, eliminating the possibility of antigravity. The gravitational acceleration of antimatter is close to that for normal matter on Earth, with a value within about 25% of normal gravity.
Coverage from 4 institutions
- Antimatter embraces Earth, falling downward like normal matter University of California - Berkeley · Sep 27, 2023 · first to report
- Down goes antimatter! Gravity's effect on matter's elusive twin is revealed U.S. National Science Foundation · Sep 27, 2023
- Does antimatter fall up or down? Physicists observe the first gravitational free-fall of antimatter University of Calgary · Sep 27, 2023
- Scientists observe the influence of gravity on antimatter for the first time University of Manchester · Sep 28, 2023