• Match!!@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Because things exist

      (the antigravity hypothesis was an attempt to explain why matter and antimatter haven’t annihilated each other)

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      1 year ago

      Because one common assumption was that the universe might contain as much antimatter as matter.

      Which begs the question: Where did it go? We would notice a huge amount of annihilation reactions in the solar system.

      “Antimatter falls up” (is gravitationally repelled instead of attracted by normal matter) was an easy hypothesis to explain that.