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To: neverdem
But with only about 230 of the rare B meson decays generated at Belle so far, the team can’t yet reach a firm conclusion

That's not nearly enough to make any conclusion regarding symmetry. There's also that pesky little 'observer' issue.
3 posted on 09/01/2009 11:16:45 AM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

I just looked for the paper, but have not yet found it.

Typically, in this field, the science is well done, the reviewers are world-wide and thorough, and the error bars are quite well estimated and reported. Usually if something is “found”, it turns out to be “true”, though the masses and such are often later found to lie outside the errors.

At these laboratories, 230 events is VERY large compared to the number of observations that many discoveries have been first announced. I think that the first announcement of the “top” quark was based on at most 25 events(possibly as low as 8). Without seeing the paper, my inclination is to say that it is likely that this will be confirmed in the future, and that means there is a “larger” particle which briefly existed.

I’ll continue to search for more about this from time to time.


13 posted on 09/01/2009 12:31:15 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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