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Default Re: OT - Physics Question on Anti-Matter

Its not the objects accelerating (IE Kinetic energy), but the underlying spacetime itself expanding.

BTW, if something is at escape velocity, it will never fall back (barring interference from other space objects)... that's because even though gravity is always there tugging on it, gravity is weakening faster than the speed is decreasing.
On a parabolic "orbit", the speed approaches zero as time approaches infinity... but it never quite manages to go negative and loop back. No matter how long you wait, you've always got just a little speed left, and gravity is *just* slightly too weak to stop you.
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