It is a hypothesis based on mathematics.
It is a theory in which the proposers are attempting to devise an experiment which could be used to test the theory.
I’ve always been fond of large bosons.
Suggesting speculation. Hypothecating guesses. Hinting at something hopeful.
And readying the next government grant proposal(s).
It’s Turtles All The Way Down!
“We determined that new types of particles we never knew of before are possible,”
Disclaimer: I don’t believe in quantum nonsense.
Comment: That is what passes for scientific research these days?
“Something we never thought of is possible.”
How does the grant money continue to flow based on this “thinking”?
Does this contradict the concept of electron shells in an atom, i.e. that the first shell can hold up to two electrons, the second up to eight, the third up to 18, etc.?
(I'm sure I don't understand all this. I've sat down and gone right through the chair onto the floor.)
This is a big fallacy of Karl Marx's theories. After a world-wide dictatorship is established and all people are brought under its control (i.e. the control of its leaders), a miracle occurs and--presto!--there is no longer any need for any government and paradise is attained!
The most miraculous thing of all is that some people are stupid enough to fall for this!
(Sorry to change the subject, but I just felt like a rant.)
PAGING SHELDON COOPER
Pondering this sort of research brings to mind the role of epicycles in explaining geocentric planetary orbits.
DEI strikes Physics again & again & again...
Now they demand that every boson and fermion is not constrained to what they were when God created them...
Pretty soon we'll see fermions in the bosons' particle accelerators (and vice versa)!