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by smosher 5533 days ago
I think the "falling up" argument comes from the conception that antimatter is the time-reverse of matter.
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Of course, regular old hydrogen "falls up", being lighter than air. :) I guess if gravity is truly reversed for antihydrogen, it would fall up even faster. But I highly doubt it's actually gravitationally repulsive.
The simple solution is to let it fall in a vacuum, which seems to be what they're doing in this case.
Or perhaps must be affected by antigravity the way matter is by gravity. Assuming antigravity exists. Whether that's correct at all I don't know, but that's the logic being used.