Re: Eotvos Breaking News!!


Ian Stirling wrote:
> Autymn D. C. <lysdexia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greysky wrote:
> >> familarity. Heck, we haven't even run experiments showing how antimater
> >> falls. How much will our knowledge be altered when the first scientist drops
> >> a significant amount of antimater and watches it fall in the wrong
> >> direction? It will, and no one will have a clue because science has been
> >> blinded to the truth for the last 4 decades...
> >
> > They didn't see it with anti-H? You are thinking of another kind of
> > antimatter. No, wait, you aren't thinking at all.
>
> Anti-H has been made.
> In vanishingly small quantities though.
> Nobody has figured out how to make it with a low enough
> velocity, or velocity dispersion to actually measure if it falls downwards.
> All sorts of fun stuff would happen if it doesn't, but it's not especially
> likely.
> A small effect now, ...

There are several grant proposals visible on the Web to measure the
rate of fall of anti-hydrogen. Contrary to anything Goldman and Nieto
might say, there is absolutely no doubt that anti-hydrogen will fall
DOWN.
The trick is to compare the rate of fall of hydrogen vs. anti-hydrogen
to better than 10^-5 or so, since some interesting new physics might
be revealed at those levels of sensitivity.

Jerry

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  • Re: Eotvos Breaking News!!
    ... we haven't even run experiments showing how antimater ... Anti-H has been made. ... or velocity dispersion to actually measure if it falls downwards. ...
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  • Re: Eotvos Breaking News!!
    ... or velocity dispersion to actually measure if it falls downwards. ... The Lamb shift, H vs. anti-H, will be interesting. ... difference/average in all composition of matter contrasts. ... Equivalence Principle testing ...
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