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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_antimatter

In recent years, the production of cold antihydrogen has become possible at the ATHENA and ATRAP experiments at CERN. Antihydrogen, which is electrically neutral, should make it possible to directly measure the gravitational attraction of antimatter particles to the matter Earth. CERN is aiming to do this. [5]

Flying saucers here i come

>> No.4233914

>>4233906
>CERN

stopped reading there.

>> No.4233918

>>4233914

i work in CERN actually, could you tell me what you dislike about our operation?

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>>4233918
yurop commie

>> No.4233921

>>4233918
besides the fact that the only thing you've done for science is build multi-million dollar money toilets, nothing at all.

>> No.4233925

>implying antimatter is somehow affected differently by gravity than regular matter.

>> No.4233927

>>4233925
That's not quite trivial, acutally. It is still good to have limits on this.

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>>4233921
>implying the world wide web wasn't invented at CERN

>implying touch screen technology wasn't invented at CERN

>implying MRI technology wasn't invented at CERN

Shall I go on?

>> No.4233944

>>4233941

>implying you didn't probably get trolled.

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>>4233921
0/10000

>> No.4233961

>>4233941
>implying al gore works at CERN

nope.jpg

gb2 yr large hardon collider

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>> No.4233973

>>4233906
Umm, it's hard to imagine anyone, even at CERN, bottling more than a few atoms of antihydrogen. Given the gravitational force (based on an electron and proton) is 10^39 smaller than the electromagnetic force, even with a whole planet pulling on your antihydrogen' I think its weight would be a little hard to measure.

>> No.4233976

>>4233973

It has the fucking same weight as hydrogen. How is this a hard concept.

>> No.4233977

>>4233914
>>4233920
>>4233921
>>4233941
>>4233945
>>4233949
>>4233961
STOP

RESPONDING

TO

THE

TROLLS

And keep discussing the topic at hand.
It would be nice to get a negative effect from contra-terrene, but I doubt it's gonna happen.

>> No.4233983

>>4233976
It has the same mass. Whether it is affected by gravity the same way as normal matter is still unknown.

>> No.4233988

>>4233976
They can't make enough of it to directly observe gravitational effects. It's all about EM/ nuclear forces on the scale of few atoms. They'd need to make at least few grams of it to do anything, and making that amount is unlikely in the next few years.