Saturday, January 31, 2015

antimatter - Anti-matter repelled by gravity - is it a serious hypothesis?




Possible Duplicate:
Why would Antimatter behave differently via Gravity?



Regarding the following statement in this article:




Most important of these is whether ordinary gravity attracts or repels antimatter. In other words, does antihydrogen fall up or down?



Is this a seriously considered hypothesis? What would be the consequences on general relativity?


If this is seriously studied, can you point to some not-too-cryptic studies on the (anti ;-)matter?




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