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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

One of world’s greatest physics mysteries finally decoded

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Physicists have answered the long-standing question of whether antimatter falls up or down under gravity, an advance that could help crack one of the biggest mysteries of why almost everything in the universe is only made of matter.

The new study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that antimatter falls downwards under gravity – as expected by much of the scientific community,

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