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Since it is currently not possible to run an Etovos experiment with antimatter, I'm kind of curious as to how you would expect me to do this.WhyIsItSo said:1. For that to hold, you must show mass as having a negative value. So you need to argue against my reasoning for stating mass is also a positive. I am curious to see what you offer.
An Etovos experiment is the only way I know of to measure the "force" of gravity directly as opposed to simply measuring inertia.
While it seems that they have created anti-H, the mean lifetime is currently around 10^-9 sec. Not long enough to be meaningful. Plus I suspect they'd have to at least get to anti-H_2, so van der wals forces didn't swamp any possible data.
There are many ways to set up math to play with this.
That different ways seem to be mathematically valid, while giving different results, says to me that we have to wait for a defining experiment.