Ping!.................
I made C’s in Physics. It is all Greek to me.
Where’s the Gorilla Glueon research?
When Jesus comes back He can explain everything in ten minutes. After all, He created the whole shootin’ match.
Exaggerate much?
Gotta get the hype up now because grant time just sneaks up on ya sometimes.
I can hear them now - “So we need a lot more money.”
Well, they are celebrating way early. They say they have analyzed less than 6% of the data, yet they are sort of claiming victory. (they use a lot of “maybe” words in this article)
And this is cryptic, to say the least: “...subatomic particles popping in and out of existence ...”
Standing by for follow-on stories.
It a nutshell, how does this benefit mankind? Or is basically wasted science? Knowledge is cool and all, but that looks like a hundred million dollar project or more.
Excellent work...
Real fundamental physics...
A rarity (excluding the finding of the 1964-predicted Higgs Boson in 2012) in the field of particle physics these past 50-60 years...
“This is strong evidence that the muon is sensitive to something that is not in our best theory.”
Or, it is strong evidence of errors in the best theories - something expressed wrong as opposed to something not included in the standard model (which contains mathematical assumptions, some of which are only theoretical and not confirmed yet by empirical evidence).
Probably decades at a minimum and a century or more before this has any practical earthly application that can use the science of Muons as it is now understood.
gravitons?
Particle physicists are like very picky accountants. In every experiment the energy books must balance to the expected theoretically predicted value (within some inevitable measurement error) or they begin to think there’s a hidden accountant somewhere they don’t know about that is cooking the books.
This was the kind of problem that perplexed physicists at the turn of the 20th century and was called the “ultraviolet catastrophe” of radiating bodies. What finally emerged from this problem was quantum mechanics and QFT. Much of the modern world is now dependent on solid state devices that resulted from our understanding of these quantum effects.
The quantum foam is also known as the vacuum energy or dark energy and makes up 75% of the energy of the universe. If there is a way to tap some hidden account in this energy bank we might be able to control energies beyond our imagination in the future.
They may discover that every time they record an anomaly, the event is preceded by the janitor placing his mop against the collider the night before.
So that's why it has a mumu on?
What's the Standard Model Binary Cow say, half the time?
These virtual particles only appear to pop in and out of existence. Reality has more dimensions than the 3 we experience everyday. Most of the forces we experience are also limited to 3 dimensions so it seems that the 3 are all there is. This strange behavior is due to things which have those extra dimensions involved.
I’ll say it’s an extraordinary day. It’s my birthday. Now I’m officially old to enough for Medicare.
I think this may potentially be the biggest story in Physics in decades, yeah even bigger than the higgs. Higgs just helped finalize a prediction, this is pointing us in directions heretofore unknown.