Items filtered by date: October 2023
12th Birthday
„Life without holidays is a long way without an inn.”
/Democritus/
Today, 19 October 2023, I celebrate the 12th birthday of my website.
As a joke, I asked Bing to write a little birthday poem. I quote only one part from the poem, leaving out the parts about me:
„May this birthday be a special one,
Filled with joy and cheer.
May your site continue to grow,
And bring happiness far and near.”
/Bing/
Is there gravity or antigravity between matter and antimatter?
Comment on a CERN experiment
Although the new test results suggest that the scientists' conclusions are at odds with my mathematical model1 I have for antigravity between clay and antimatter, I was pleased to read the reports in Nature2 on 27 September 2023 - and in Scientific American3 online on - of a CERN experiment using antihydrogen atoms to test the behaviour of antimatter in the Earth's gravitational field. I was happy to see the tests because, as beautiful as a theory is, experience has the final word.
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1 See the article titled „Chatting with Bing about the direction of matter-antimatter gravity”;
Chatting with Bing about the direction of matter-antimatter gravity (infinitemath.hu)
2 See Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (nature.com)
3 See What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall - Scientific American
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