A Major Physics Experiment Just Detected a Particle That Shouldn't Exist

www.livescience.com ^ | June 1, 2018 04:49pm ET | By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer

[Red Badger]

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all.

The first hints these elusive particles turned up decades ago. But after years of dedicated searches, scientists have been unable to find any other evidence for them, with many experiments contradicting those old results. These new results now leave scientists with two robust experiments that seem to demonstrate the existence of sterile neutrinos, even as other experiments continue to suggest sterile neutrinos don't exist at all.

That means there's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another.

Sterile neutrinos

Back in the mid-1990s, the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND), an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, found evidence of a mysterious new particle: a "sterile neutrino" that passes through matter without interacting with it. But that result couldn't be replicated; other experiments simply couldn't find any trace of the hidden particle. So the result was set aside.

[Lazamataz]

Sometimes people ask "If light has no mass how can it be deflected by the gravity of a star?". One answer is that all particles, including photons, move along geodesics in general relativity and the path they follow is independent of their mass.

[musicman]

"One answer is that all particles,
including photons,
move along geodesics in general relativity
and the path they follow
is independent of their mass...."



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[Garth Tater]

"Hey, I wonder if I'm on to something."

I often wonder if you're on something. Do you have enough to share?

[Lazamataz]

I often wonder if you're on something.

I'm on a hot blond.

Do you have enough to share?

No. Get yer own girl.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Hey, I wonder if I’m on to something.”

I think you’re a few beers ahead of me on that one. But if the universe can inflate faster than the speed of light, I suppose it’s only fair that black holes should be able to collapse that way too.

Somewhat relevant:
https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/21/how-does-gravity-escape-a-black-hole/

[wxgesr]

Just don’t look at em, they will get paranoid and move away.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If it exists, it should exist. This means the scientists’ equations are wrong, and must be replaced by equations that work.

You want them to redo their math?!?!

The horror.

[TBP]

Now we just need to find dilithium.

[freepertoo]

Well, we already have transparent aluminum, so I guess dilithium is next!

[TBP]

“How do we know he didn’t invent it?” — Montgomery Scott

[freepertoo]

And, as Bones McCoy, so wisely responded...”Yeah.”

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 06/04/2018. Thanks Red Badger.

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[Hot Tabasco]

This lets-spend-billions-on-an-experiment philosophy

I understand where you're coming from but how can you dispute the facts in the following graph? I've studied it for the past half hour and it all makes sense to me.....well, not really....LOL!