Science loves to smash stuff together to see how it works.
This may not always be the best approach.
Imagine a primitive person seeing a cell phone. If they smash it into small pieces that will not be very helpful in determining how it works.
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There are probably a lot of flaws in the current model of particle physics.
You might break down quickly too if a society of primarily homely mesons was trying to oppress your outcomes.
OK Go back to the sand box.
Oh, great, now I guess I can flunk it again.
These short-lived particles (mesons) are regularly created in the upper atmosphere via collision with atmospheric particles and incoming cosmic rays from space.
Although they have such an incredibly short life span after creation, more of them manage to make it to the ground and are picked up by detectors than are expected. This is because they are traveling at a comparatively high proportion of the speed of light and so their sense of time from our perspective is slowed down enough such that they can survive long enough to complete the trip.
This observation has been used as a confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity. The phenomenon is known as Time Dilation. Interestingly, from the mesons' frame of reference, it is the *distance traveled* that changes. It sees the distance from the point of creation to the earth's surface shortened by an associated phenomenon known as Length Contraction. Both are parts of the Theory of Relativity, as seen relative to the two reference frames.
Author made statement in article that we have “seen things in nature like dark matter”...uh..no..havent “seen” or visualized dark matter yet.
There is nothing new under the sun or in physics.
Only tons and tons of stuff that you dont know.
It’s never encouraging for a theory when scientists investigate “swapping one assumption for another.”
Sounds like they might have caught a terminal case of the Big Data/Data Mining disease.