Sure would be a drag if they simply miscalibrated something.....................
Posted on 04/07/2022 3:14:55 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Inflation.
Think of all the “quantum foam” phenomena going on in the space between the electrons and nucleus of a single atom.
“Seems the Hadron Collider isn’t solving the theoretical problems they said it would.
Strange, my hard-on collider has defiantly caused problems that weren’t theoretical.
W boson loses 10% of its weight using this one weird trick.
Did Kent smear grease on the optic?
Subatomic world be weird.
Yes, Sheldon Glashow.
Yes. Engineering creates practical problems to overcome. Mathematicians and physicists never have to face those real world problems.
Poor basatards.
Sure would be a drag if they simply miscalibrated something.....................
Only if you get a job in academia.
If you don’t you’re pretty much doing “engineering”.
Entropy rules the universe and everything in it. Question is, what exactly causes it?
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