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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

...if only...

[–] mindbleach 3 points 11 months ago

That's a lot more often than I expected, thirty seconds ago!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That’s fucking awesome.