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Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?

Season 9 Episode 35 | 16m 30s

For many years, physicists have wondered whether a certain well-known exotic material may experience gravitational repulsion from the Earth. That material is antimatter, and physicists at CERN have just completed a very long and very difficult experiment to answer a seemingly simple question: does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?

Aired: 01/16/24
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