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ANTIGRAVITY: A RECENT TEST RESULT MIGHT HAVE RULED IT OUT

According to first Newton, then Einstein, and now an experiment at CERN, gravity is an attractive force that exists between all objects in the Universe. That includes objects that have no mass, because gravity acts on energy, and mass is just one form of energy (as Einstein's most famous equation states, energy is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light). This is why even massless photons of light, travelling from distant stars, have their paths bent as they pass massive galaxies on the way.

Antigravity is a hypothetical

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