Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution

BBC ^ | 04/07/2022 | Pallab Ghosh

[BenLurkin]

Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be.

The measurement is the first conclusive experimental result that is at odds with one of the most important and successful theories of modern physics.

The team has found that the particle, known as a W boson, is more massive than the theories predicted.

The scientists at the Fermilab Collider Detector (CDF) in Illinois have found only a tiny difference in the mass of the W Boson compared with what the theory says it should be - just 0.1%. But if confirmed by other experiments, the implications are enormous. The so-called Standard Model of particle physics has predicted the behaviour and properties of sub-atomic particles with no discrepancies whatsoever for fifty years. Until now.

The result, published in the journal Science, could be related to hints from other experiments at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider at the Swiss-French border. These, as yet unconfirmed results, also suggest deviations from the Standard Model, possibly as a result of an as yet undiscovered fifth force of nature at play.

[BenLurkin]

Sure would be a drag if they simply miscalibrated something.

[Huskrrrr]

So the Universe is unstable?

[NWFree]

Like Sheldon 🤪

[BenLurkin]

"Deviations from the Standard Model, possibly as a result of an as yet undiscovered fifth force of nature at play."

"Multi-Pass."

[cuban leaf]

These, as yet unconfirmed results...

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i.e. slow news day.

[SpaceBar]

A few dozen people on the planet with the appropriate degrees will be gobsmacked by these results. The other 99.99993% of humanity will simply pay more for gas.

[2CAVTrooper]

[Track9]

Entanglement alway makes things more interesting.

[pfflier]

More “settled science” going down the tubes.

[Gaffer]

Calibration over temperature range for sensors and measurement devices is always the first place to start. That happened with the free-energy fusion hysteria about 30 years ago.

[SuperLuminal]

Yikes!
If true, will have to figure out what to do with a couple of my T-shirts...

[TChad]

Sure would be a drag if they simply miscalibrated something.

Like the energy required to initiate creation of a black hole.

[fruser1]

How many people at Fermilab have been vaxed?

[NoLibZone]

No.
His mother had him tested.

[Secret Agent Man]

imagine defending certain ways of physics for decades, building a career on it, and then finding fundamentally it’s just wrong.

can you see why academic inertia, scientific inertia/momentum really goes against actual discoveries that threaten their existing worldviews?

Its the same with every field of “science”. Often they bury and hammer down, threaten loss of labs/tenure/work to those whose work goes against “established” science.

[NoLibZone]

I’ve been saying this since grade school.
But nobody would listen.

[cgbg]

Outlaw particles refuse to obey the laws of physics.

;-)

[Seruzawa]

No worries. These birds are good at making up ever more unhinged and untestable theories. It's all aimed at suckering govts into building an even bigger supercollider. Seems the Hadron Collider isn't solving the theoretical problems they said it would. So it's another pile of billions they want.

[NoLibZone]

”Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.” Nobel Prize physicist Richard P. Feynman ,

[outofsalt]

The “obesity epidemic” strikes again!