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Antihydrogen falls just like ordinary hydrogen

 

The LHC makes enough antiprotons and positrons that they can some can be captured and stored to make antihydrogen atoms, on which you can do experiments other than the high-energy collisions that the Collider's main detectors record.  This report is checking the response of antihydrogen to gravity.  As predicted by General Relativity, antihydrogen falls just like regular hydrogen.  Antimatter does not make antigravity.  This is not a surprise, but the direct experimental test has been made now.

 

EDIT: Nature paper describing the experiment, etc.

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Hmm. SpaceX website lists the launch as being Saturday at around 7:00a CT. I wonder if SpaceX hasn't updated their site for the Friday launch or if the Youtuber has the wrong day?

 

Edit: Elon Musk Tweeted (X'ed?) today at 1:17pm that they need to replace a grid fin actuator so the launch was postponed to Saturday. So, the SpaceX website is the correct date and time assuming we can trust Elon.

 

Edit2: Here's a link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725231694645461403

 

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Interestingly, the Space news sites both posted a day early. If Starship had launched today (Friday, Nov. 17) they would have probably poste footage. As it was, they reported the delay, and what caused it, as well as the large number of launches this past week.

 

 

 

 

And the Vulcan is apparently ready to launch soon:
https://spacenews.com/ula-gearing-up-for-first-vulcan-launch/

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