{"id":84480,"date":"2018-11-04T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/does-antimatter-fall-upwards-new-cern-gravity-experiments-aim-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-matter"},"modified":"2018-11-04T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T07:22:39","slug":"does-antimatter-fall-upwards-new-cern-gravity-experiments-aim-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/does-antimatter-fall-upwards-new-cern-gravity-experiments-aim-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-matter","title":{"rendered":"Does antimatter fall upwards? New CERN gravity experiments aim to get to the bottom of the matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bgyi4skk9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physics tells us that a hammer and a feather, dropped in a vacuum, will fall at the same rate \u2013 as famously demonstrated by an <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap111101.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo 15 astronaut<\/a> on the Moon. Now, CERN scientists are preparing to put a spooky new spin on that experiment, by dropping antimatter in a vacuum chamber to see if gravity affects it the same way it does matter \u2013 or if antimatter falls <em>upwards <\/em>instead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/cern-antimatter-gravity-experiments\/57090\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/cern-antimatter-gravity-experiments\/57090\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics tells us that a hammer and a feather, dropped in a vacuum, will fall at the same rate \u2013 as famously demonstrated by an Apollo 15 astronaut on the Moon. Now, CERN scientists are preparing to put a spooky new spin on that experiment, by dropping antimatter in a vacuum chamber to see if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84480","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}