Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory

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Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory - Lemmy.world

I didn’t know antimatter was a completely confirmed thing.

Not only does it exist, but bananas give off a fair bit of antimatter due to their decaying potassium isotopes.

Allegedly, im not smart enough to verify it

Bananas produce antimatter, but just barely. The main radioactive material in bananas is Potassium-40. A banana is about 0.358% potassium in all. About 0.012% of naturally occurring potassium is the radioactive Potassium-40. Only 0.001% of all radioactive decay events in postassium-40 produce an antiparticle (a positron).

An average banana produces a single positron about every 75 minutes.

Brb. Making a fruit-based matter-antimatter annihilation power plant.

You kid but as a kid when I learned about potatoes and lemon batteries I was like “SCALE THIS UP NOW!”

…if only…