Posted on 04/20/2017 10:52:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Ever since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider has been dedicated to searching for the existence of physics that go beyond the Standard Model. To this end, the Large Hardon Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) was established in 2016, specifically for the purpose of exploring what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and create the Universe as we know it.
Since that time, the LHCb has been doing some rather amazing things. This includes discovering five new particles, uncovering evidence of a new manifestation of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and (most recently) discovering unusual results when monitoring beta decay. These findings, which CERN announced in a recent press release, could be an indication of new physics that are not part of the Standard Model.
In this latest study, the LHCb collaboration team noted how the decay of B0 mesons resulted in the production of an excited kaon and a pair of electrons or muons. Muons, for the record, are subatomic particles that are 200 times more massive than electrons, but whose interactions are believed to be the same as those of electrons (as far as the Standard Model is concerned).
This is what is known as “lepton universality”, which not only predicts that electrons and muons behave the same, but should be produced with the same probability – with some constraints arising from their differences in mass. However, in testing the decay of B0 mesons, the team found that the decay process produced muons with less frequency. These results were collected during Run 1 of the LHC, which ran from 2009 to 2013.
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Kim Jong-un an antimatter Kim Jong-un would meet and destroy each other
The more they look, the more they find, and the more complicated things get, which prompts them to look some more.
So, let’s keep things simple and stop looking.
God seems to be playing games with the scientists and researchers. The closer the scientists get, the further away God puts the answers.
What, does God hate scientists?
"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."—Werner Heisenberg
Question: do these colliders ever pay for themselves?
Fascinating. (Raises eyebrow.)
Only in knowledge
You put a penny in it and drop a quarter in the slot and it’ll stretch out the penny.
Of course, it also creates a Black Hole, so you lose the penny.
Anthony Patch has a very interesting take on what CERN is all about. Don’t look him up unless you are ready to take the red pill.
You wins the thread.
/simple hormonic oscillator> /or is it osculator?> (talk about your Uncertainty Principle)
Oh probably not. But let’s find out all we can in the meantime.
dp0622 already mentioned The Big Bang Theory, so enough of the talk of putting it in Penny and Penny getting stretched out.
That's Leonard's job, anyway.
I’m not good enough at math to debate particle physics. But it just feels wrong that every time they have a problem with the Standard Model they hypothesize an as yet unknown particle which they eventually discover after spending billions of dollars. How much money did Einstein or Newton need? My feeling is we don’t need more science spending we just need better scientists.
Pardon me while I go and get a cup of warm cocoa and my quilt and go sit in my rocker and muse on all the word plays I missed on this thread.
Deciphered? All the time.
Fully deciphered? Not likely, as more knowledge mostly begets additional questions.
Humor is good.
A young scientist uses a little humor to explain what CERN does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Gave him a listen.
Near as I can tell, the guy is crazier than a shtt-house rat.
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