Do Hydrogen and Antihydrogen Weigh the Same (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Do Hydrogen and Antihydrogen Weigh the Same

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UC Berkeley/LBNL physicists asked the question, does normal hydrogen (left, with a negatively charged electron orbiting a positively charged proton) weigh the same as antihydrogen (a positively charged positron orbiting a negatively charged antiproton)?

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Image by Chukman So, UC Berkeley.

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