/sci/ - Science & Math

Your poo is anti matter. For the love of god don't flush it!

>>3515174
Antimatter has positive mass.

Pooping forces you to open your anus.
While poop goes out, air comes in.
Maybe your poop wasn't as heavy as the air.

You're not using an accurate scale.

>>3515180
Are we sure of that? My physics professor told us this semester CERN was still looking into antihydrogen to verify it's true.

>>3515180
Okay. Then, OP, your poo was something that has negative mass. For the long of god don't flush it!

>>3515192
There is plenty of antimatter in normal colliders. LEP used electron/positron, Tevatron proton/antiproton, and all of them create a huge load of particles and antiparticles when smashing their beams together. I'm not really familiar with the antihydrogen experiments, maybe they're looking for a new broken symmetry that would break mass invariance under C transformation, but I'm not aware that is suggested by some current theory.

>>3515180
how do you explain this then?
http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/94/2/20001/pdf/0295-5075_94_2_20001.pdf

>>3515192
Suppose you had matter resting on a desk. You somehow converted it to an equivalent mass of antimatter. If it had a repulsive gravity interaction it would accelerate away from the center of the earth. After it rises for a period, you reconvert it back to regular matter. It now has a higher sum of mass and potential energy than it started with. Does this sound plausible?

>>3515212
As far as I can recall, he said current theories left open how antimatter interacts with gravity.
So all they did at (that subsection of) CERN was to create anti-H, accelerate it, and see if it falls up or down.

>>3515226
Well, then I stand corrected.

>Poop thread leads to discussion about anti-matter.

Theres still hope for /sci/ after all.

>>3515216
Methinks converting 'somehow' matter into antimatter will need giant amounts of energy, so don't worry about PE.

>>3515233
Well, you shouldn't take it for granted, chances are a physicist dumbs his explanations down for his electrical engineering students.

>>3515256
I didn't take it for granted, I took it for granted that it's subject to investigation.

>>3515256
But then you convert it back, which should take the exact same amount of energy

>>3515167
>Explain this to me /sci/

Bathroom scales are shit - they get stuck, you lean slightly differently and the weight changes, you move them to a slightly harder part of the carpet and the weight changes

We know that anti-matter has positive energy.

We are reasonably sure that it has the same sign on gravitation as matter does.

But it's worth checking anyway, and we're workingo it.

>>3515167
Don't eat the helium balloon next time.

>>3515241
>>Poop thread leads to discussion about anti-matter.
>Theres still hope for /sci/ after all.
This sort of thing is why I come to /sci/. (The new-to-me science, not the poop talk).