This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 29 September 2023
A Matter of Deepest Gravity
Scientists at CERN in Switzerland appear to have shown that there's no such thing as antigravity. Antimatter is the mirror image of matter. It's made of antiprotons (with the same mass as a proton but a negative charge) and positively-charged antielectrons. The scientists made antihydrogen (an antiproton with an associated antielectron) and subjected it to gravity. It 'fell' downwards, just like regular hydrogen (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/27/scientists-find-antimatter-is-subject-to-gravity). Antimatter doesn't have an antigravity alternative. Only certain politicians and particularly noxious 'celebrities' appear to fall upwards.
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