Particle Physics news - MUONS and potential new fundamental force, Standard Model questioned

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

New Measurements of Muons Might Rewrite Particle Physics | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Sometimes when I read these articles it just amazes me sometimes the extent to which the scientific community, really worldwide, and what it does on a daily basis is just so divorced and alien to most people

There are people who work on studying subatomic particles, with crazy colliders and shyt, using language and knowledge of which 99% of people are almost universally ignorant

Sometimes I think these mfers announce shyt like this knowing most people are just going to briefly skim and say "oh cool I guess" and not push back on any increased funding

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

New Measurements of Muons Might Rewrite Particle Physics | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Sometimes when I read these articles it just amazes me sometimes the extent to which the scientific community, really worldwide, and what it does on a daily basis is just so divorced and alien to most people

There are people who work on studying subatomic particles, with crazy colliders and shyt, using language and knowledge of which 99% of people are almost universally ignorant

Sometimes I think these mfers announce shyt like this knowing most people are just going to briefly skim and say "oh cool I guess" and not push back on any increased funding

I know someone who worked on the LHC. He was mostly mum, probably knew I was an idiot

 

[Eddie_1100]

Cool

 

[Eddie_1100]

I saw an article about this a few days ago as well I thought it was amusing. I still remember some prodigy program as a kid talking about there wasn’t anything smaller than a quark, I guess at that time..

Wonder what they’ll be saying 20 years from now.

 

[Eternal Tecate]

Particles don't mean shyt. It's all about the underlying math

 

[Propaganda]

yeah, i saw this the other day. what they've got so far (barring some statistical fluke or human fukk-up) suggest the muons are interacting with something beyond our current models. undiscovered particles, or maybe a whole different force we don't know of. shyt, could be both even? who knows?

whatever the case, they have work to do to prove this further but if the findings hold up, it'd be a game-changer.