Response to "CPT symmetry and antimatter gravity in general relativity"

TL;DR

This paper critically examines a proposed matter-anti-matter repulsion explanation for cosmic acceleration, demonstrating it fails due to incorrect photon behavior predictions and inconsistent CPT application.

Contribution

The paper refutes a recent hypothesis linking CPT symmetry to antimatter gravity, clarifying its theoretical inconsistencies and invalidating its explanation for cosmic acceleration.

Findings

Incorrect photon behavior predictions

Inconsistent application of CPT transformation

Proposal cannot explain cosmic acceleration

Abstract

The observed accelerated cosmic expansion is problematic in that it seems to require an otherwise unobserved dark energy for its origin. A possible alternative explanation has been recently given, which attempts to account for this expansion in terms of a hypothesized matter-anti-matter repulsion. This repulsion or anti-gravity is derived by applying the CPT theorem to general relativity. We show that this proposal cannot work for two reasons: 1) it incorrectly predicts the behavior of photons and 2) the CPT transformation itself is not consistently applied.