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New breakthrough in particle physics?; "Bump" in the data
Topic Started: Apr 7 2011, 07:48 AM (298 Views)
Klaus
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Physicists from Fermilab have seen a “bump” in their data that could indicate a brand new particle unlike any ever seen before. If verified, this could re-write particle physics as we know it. “Essentially, the Tevatron has seen evidence for a new particle, 150 times mass of proton, that doesn’t behave like a standard Higgs particle,” said physicist Brian Cox on Twitter. “If this stands up to scrutiny and more data (there is not yet enough data for a “discovery”), then it is RIP Standard Model.”

http://www.universetoday.com/84688/particle-physicists-see-something-little-that-could-be-really-big/
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Fascinating! :)
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Klaus
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This story reminds me of this old quote from Asimov: Scientific revolutions do not begin with someone saying "Heureka" but "This is funny...".
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Horace
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Haha, world class particle physicists are tweeting breakthroughs.

Take that, Twitter bashers! :tongue:
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Twitter has no use in modern society - except for heralding the dawn of a new age where we finally discover the limitless quantum states of the polycosmos!

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There was a link in the article that Klaus posted to another discussion of the Fermilab results: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/06/anomalies-at-fermilab/

Couple of quotes from the "comments". Apparently forum behavior is universal; only the topic changes (sometimes):

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4. Steven Colyer Says:
April 6th, 2011 at 11:36 am

New scientific results are always cool, but let’s never forget that 3-sigma results are not 5-sigma, and that even though all 5-sigma started out as 3-sigma, the vast majority of 3-sigma results went nowhere. They can gussy up these results all they want, but it remains sad to see the Tevatron at Fermilab “fishing” if you will, if that’s all this turns out to be.

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and my favorite:

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5. jery Says:
April 6th, 2011 at 11:36 am

I’m looking forward to the end of 2011 when hopefully Fermilab will stop bothering us with more of these death rattles.

It’s pathetic trying to steal LHC’s thunder with such lame tricks…


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Classy....
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KlavierBauer
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Come on guys - everyone in the physics world KNOWS that the hadron collider (LHC) is stealing Fermilab's thunder!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNT8SMlqLJA :whome:


I **had** to post this!
Edited by plays88keys, Apr 7 2011, 11:25 AM.
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