{"id":173142,"date":"2023-09-29T21:28:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/antimatter-embraces-earth-falling-downward-like-normal-matter"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:28:22","slug":"antimatter-embraces-earth-falling-downward-like-normal-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/antimatter-embraces-earth-falling-downward-like-normal-matter","title":{"rendered":"Antimatter embraces Earth, falling downward like normal matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antimatter-embraces-earth-falling-downward-like-normal-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those still holding out hope that antimatter levitates rather than falls in a gravitational field, like normal matter, the results of a new experiment are a dose of cold reality.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists studying antihydrogen\u2014an anti-proton paired with an antielectron, or positron\u2014have conclusively shown that gravity pulls it downward and does not push it upward.<\/p>\n<p>At least for antimatter, antigravity doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those still holding out hope that antimatter levitates rather than falls in a gravitational field, like normal matter, the results of a new experiment are a dose of cold reality. Physicists studying antihydrogen\u2014an anti-proton paired with an antielectron, or positron\u2014have conclusively shown that gravity pulls it downward and does not push it upward. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}