{"id":541953,"date":"2018-11-02T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f26a61da9005aa2b385f3323554a07f3"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:20:02","slug":"new-antimatter-gravity-experiments-begin-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=541953","title":{"rendered":"New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth&#8217;s gravity. What we haven&#8217;t learned, because it hasn&#8217;t been directly measured in experiments, is whether antimatter falls down at the same rate as ordinary matter or if it might behave differently. Two new experiments at CERN, ALPHA-g and GBAR, have now started their journey towards answering this question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth&#8217;s gravity. What we haven&#8217;t learned, because it hasn&#8217;t been directly measured in experiments, is whether a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542338,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541953\/revisions\/542338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}