Scientists ask if antimatter falls up instead of down

Scientists have embarked on one of the strangest experiments ever — to see whether atoms of exotic antimatter fall up instead of down.

Scientists ask if antimatter falls up instead of down

Antimatter is weird stuff, being a kind of mirror image of ordinary matter with an opposite electric charge.

When an particle of normal matter meets its antimatter counterpart the two annihilate each other in a flash of light.

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