Posted on 04/08/2022 5:29:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Fermilab Collider Detector obtained a result that could transform the current theory of physics 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 result has been described as "shocking" by Prof David Toback, who is the project co-spokesperson.
The discovery could lead to the development of a new, more complete theory of how the Universe works.
"If the results are verified by other experiments, the world is going to look different." he told BBC News. "There has to be a paradigm shift. The hope is that maybe this result is going to be the one that breaks the dam.
"The famous astronomer Carl Sagan said 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. We believe we have that."
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.
CDF's other co-spokesperson, Prof Giorgio Chiarelli, from INFN Sezione di Pisa, told BBC News that the research team could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw the results.
"No-one was expecting this. We thought maybe we got something wrong." But the researchers have painstakingly gone through their results and tried to look for errors. They found none.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Is Sagan speaking from the grave?
“The Fermilab Collider Detector obtained a result that could transform the current theory of physics Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be.”
WOW!!
Now we are finding out that Physics is not settled science.
You know like Climatology is.
Happens all the time. They gradually get smaller and smaller but you pay the same price.
One day, the price jumps up but they are bigger and improved!
Don’t worry. The powers that be will be working on racial physics.
Sub atomic particles used to be huge!
And they cost a nickel!
They were two for a nickel when I was a kid!...............
“not what it should be.”
No. It is what is, and that’s what it should be. When an observed phenomenon doesn’t agree with the sacred equations, that means that the equations are wrong. Redo your work.
I have a friend, a fellow astronomy club member who is a retired Professor of Astronomy. I am sure he has been to FermiLab many times. I know he’s been to CERN. I’m going to ask him about this. He knows quite a bit about astrophysics.
He also knows quite a bit about the global warming hoax, and considers it such.
He’s not your typical liberal Professor.
They are already starting
Seattle professor claims physics is racist, white supremacy rampant in classrooms
“Sub atomic particles used to be huge!
And they cost a nickel!”
Nowadays, they’re packed with flavor.
Hmm, I was a physics major for my first 2 years of college ( switched over to mathematics) . There were 10 of us in the freshman class of physics majors. Three of them were black. So, according to their representation in the population, they were overrepresented in the classroom.
The above refers to post 14
That quote is before he testified about climate change (aka global warming) on Capitol Hill ..
Nope. Already checked that. Went out on the deck and the world looks the same.
That’s philosopher Karl Popper’s concept of falsificationism in science. Theories cannot be proven, they only fail (as yet) to be disproven. Did Feynman steal that from Popper? ;)
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