| dethalternate | Date: Friday, 03-May-2013, 2:44 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have tested a novel way to find out if antimatter is the source of a force termed "antigravity".
Antimatter particles are the "mirror image" of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge.
How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery, however; it may "fall up" rather than down.
Now researchers reporting in Nature Communications have made strides toward finally resolving that notion.
Antimatter presents one of the biggest mysteries in physics, in that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created at the Universe's beginning.
Read more/Full article/source - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355187
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