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Next, suspend it in a mercury-like globule between two battery-powered magnetic plates, and place it beneath the Vatican...
Next, suspend it in a mercury-like globule between two battery-powered magnetic plates, and place it beneath the Vatican...
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As has been alluded to, gravity is an extremely weak force, so any gravitational effect is easily masked by electroweak forces until you accumulate a very significant mass. There's no way they can measure this on a single atom.
But easy to test with 2 atoms! Smash them together at a high enough speed where e=mc^2 says they would create a black hole. If they are destroyed in a blip of Hawking radiation, they had gravity!
Next, suspend it in a mercury-like globule between two battery-powered magnetic plates, and place it beneath the Vatican...
Why?
Next, suspend it in a mercury-like globule between two battery-powered magnetic plates, and place it beneath the Vatican...
Although the cost to create antimatter is very high, our government is actually working on creating antimatter munitions. (I've worked on creating a portable antimatter trap, which was funded by the U.S. government.)
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Although the cost to create antimatter is very high, our government is actually working on creating antimatter munitions. (I've worked on creating a portable antimatter trap, which was funded by the U.S. government.)
With what purpose? How would such a thing act?
I, for one, am just glad that CERN didn't create a black hole or otherwise destroy spacetime before they managed to do the kind of thing we normally have to turn to science fiction to read about.
Their developments are so fascinating to read about I can't wait to hear more.
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In accordance with Feynman's idea that the positron is an electron moving backwards in time... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocausality#Antimatter )
Wheeler invoked this concept to explain the identical properties shared by all electrons, suggesting that "they are all the same electron" with a complex, self-intersecting worldline. Quantum mechanics is so cool!
I hope they will finally definitely answer if anti-matter also has anti-gravity. Not a single scientist thinks it does, but it's one of those things you just want confirmed.
Maybe you're thinking of exotic matter? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter