# An atom made of muons is about to be dropped — and Einstein’s gravity is the target

A muon survives for roughly 2.2 microseconds. That sliver of time is the entire window a team at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute has to assemble an atom around one, fire it upward, and record how Earth's gravity bends its path. Should the experiment work, it would mark the first occasion

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| Published | 19 September 2026 |

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