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Old 11-18-2010, 01:38 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Apparently it interects differently than normal hydrogen, in ways physics can't explain.
At least according to the linked case, we don't know that (yet). That's what they're going to test. They haven't done so yet, though.

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The achievement means researchers can now test whether anti-atoms obey the same physical laws as regular atoms. For example, matter and antimatter should absorb and emit light at the same wavelengths, according to the standard model of particle physics.
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