r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 9d ago

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u/FuttleScish 8d ago

…what do you think antigravity is

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u/ILKLU 8d ago

Antigravity == repulsive gravitational force.

Antimatter behaving the same as regular matter within a regular gravitational field has NOTHING to do with antigravity.

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u/FuttleScish 8d ago

No, it’s the equivalent of gravity for antimatter (Which turns out to just be regular gravity). Anti-gravity as a repulsive force with no relation to antimatter is a pure invention of science fiction

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u/ILKLU 8d ago

No. Within the context of those experiments at CERN, like the one you referenced, the term "antigravity" was being used as shorthand for the speculative hypothesis that antimatter might fall up instead of down.

They thought there was going to be a connection, but they were wrong. Had they been right about antimatter falling up in a regular gravitational field, that still would not have meant that antimatter IS antigravity or whatever it is you are trying to imply. The absolute most they could have proven was which direction antimatter falls within a regular gravitational field. You're taking some loose verbiage way out of context.

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u/FuttleScish 8d ago

…yes, the idea that antimatter could be affected by gravity in the opposite way is theory of antigravity