[o_1_2_3__]

How does a “potential” particle “show up”?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Steely Tom]

I’m waiting for them to discover evidence of time reversal.

If I’m not mistaken, there is already some tentative evidence of that, arising from neutrino research.

I believe that - if it is possible at all - time reversal and time travel will first be observed at the level of subatomic particles.

[gorush]

[Kirkwood]

It will be called the Sheldon.

[Paladin2]

Crash to airplanes into each other at high speed and you’ll find new particles too.

[Slyfox]

Louis Pasteur, when he was fooling with bacteria, noticed that there must be something smaller than bacteria. Later, viruses were discovered when improved microscopes could see them.

[Paladin2]

Crash two airplanes into each other at high speed and you’ll find new particles too.

[Buttons12]

Wouldn't it be funny if what they were doing caused a new type of particle to come into being? I.e., they actually created it?

[Oceander]

Very interesting. If true it would be something new under the sun for physics theory. Later in the article it says that to-date no theory paper has predicted this particle.

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If the LHC truly has seen a new particle, however, the question looming large is: What is it? From its signature at the LHC, the particle must weigh roughly 750 giga-electron volts (GeV), around 750 times the mass of the proton, and would fall into the class of bosons, meaning its spin has an integer value. Some theorists say the newcomer looks like a heavier cousin of the Higgs boson, which similarly first showed up at the LHC as a highly intriguing blip in the data about four years ago. Or it could be a kind of portal particle into the dark matter sector—because this particle decays almost immediately, on its own it cannot account for the invisible matter that seems to be ubiquitous in space, but it may be a messenger that communicates with the dark matter particle, theorists suggested. Another hypothetical alternative is that it is a graviton, the predicted carrier particle for the force of gravity.

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[tacticalogic]

After the “faster than light neutrino” debacle, I’ll wait until they reproduce and verify the results.

[tacticalogic]

After the “faster than light neutrino” debacle, I’ll wait until they reproduce and verify the results.

[SgtHooper]

Somebody screwed up the grounding or shielding. But should be worth more government grants or funding.

[Norm Lenhart]

Someone found Romney’s Severe Conservatism?

That IS amazing!

[beethovenfan]

It’s the Obamatron - no charge, no mass, no charm, no substance, lies at the speed of light.

[Revel]

This is the insanity particle that has already become evident among the GOP in congress.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Measurement error....