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AMA | October 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Do Antimatter Particles Exist on Earth?

Antimatter was first discovered by Carl Anderson in Cosmic Rays, but the cosmic rays themselves were not antimatter. Many kinds of radioactivity give off anti-matter particles. Light can come in from outside the black hole and be observed by you in your telescope. There's absolutely no reason to think that somehow the world is more obviously quantum mechanical just because you're inside a black hole. You wouldn't even notice if the black hole were big enough.

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