Answer to Question #182089 in Quantum Mechanics for Jon-Luke Carlow

Question

Is animatter influenced by gravity? Is there a way to contain or to increase animatter in any one space?

Answer 1

The gravitational interaction of antimatter with matter or antimatter has not been conclusively observed by physicists. Most methods for the creation of antimatter (specifically antihydrogen) result in high-energy particles and atoms of high kinetic energy, which are unsuitable for gravity-related study.

Antimatter in the form of charged particles can be contained by a combination of electric and magnetic fields, in a device called a Penning trap. This device cannot, however, contain antimatter that consists of uncharged particles, for which atomic traps are used.