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Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You may have heard of a "PET scan" used in medicine. This uses a type of antimatter called a positron.

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/positron-emission-tomography-antimatter-cancer/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The complexity behind this is fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just wait until you find out about MRI :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty awesome too, but they don't need molecules with atoms that were modified using particle colliders just minutes/hours before you need them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still much more complex than PET conceptually, and much more versatile.