Rather than a brand new new force of nature, it might suggest a different decay path for the muon. An upcoming article to be published in ZNA Physics A suggests that under the right conditions some muons might be generated in the form of emergent magnetic monopoles. Such “hypercomplex” muons and their alternative decay path have been suggested to resolve the puzzle of the neutron lifetime measurement for beam vs bottle methods. Such supercurrents produced by pairs of hypercomplex muons might be converted into gravity-like fields. If so, it would represent a long sought interaction that Faraday, Einstein and Blackett predicted between gravitation and electromagnetism.
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“It has no explanation for the dark matter that astronomy tells us dominates the universe,”
Have any astronomers actually proven this stuff exists?
Serious question.
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Skeptics dub the Beauty Quark the figment since it can be considered beyond reality
Anti-Gravity will be coming soon....................
I figure Dark Matter is simply neutrinos that have slowed down. They don’t weigh much so there must be an incredible amount of them. The slowing down part is what is hard to figure out since nothing much effects them. Perhaps this 5th force is responsible for that.
“This was truly surprising because, according to the standard model, the muon is basically a carbon copy of the electron – identical in every way except for being around 200 times heavier.”
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200x heavier??? That’s nothing to scoff. They don’t seem identical at all to me. Why would it be a surprise that quarks decay to them at different rates.
There’s more stuff that we can’t find. Give us money and we’ll find more stuff.
I’ve grown to not trust “The Conversation” site after reading they are in very tight with the Poynter Institute and its fake, “fake news” banning.
The Poynter Institute had to publicly retract over 500 bans on conservatives sites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynter_Institute#International_Fact-Checking_Network
I am not a physicist and I did not sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, but I appreciate the angle of finding a new force. The four known ones bewilder me - for example, just taking magnets and moving them around on a table because there is some ‘force’ between them is incredible.
Stay on the path and search for new God created forces.
I wonder how long it’s going to take the Chicoms to get their hands on that collider.
Since it started out as the Bottom Quark instead of calling it the Beauty Quark, shouldn’t they call it the Booty Quark?
"To get there, we need to reduce the size of the error, and to do this we need more data."
Translation:
Probably another of those "famous" disappearing discoveries...
Please keep giving us those billions of euros so we can fiddle around with old data some more...
We do need a bigger version of the LHCb...
We looked at the data and broke out in the particle-physics song: "You are so beautiful"...
In my day, we'd have used the term GIGO...
It is not as in the old days when you could remember the author of a paper. The authors from the LHCb collaboration are listed in small print on pages 17 - 20 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09501.pdf