Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution

BBC ^ | April 07,2022 | By Pallab Ghosh

[Red Badger]

[CodeJockey]

"The famous astronomer Carl Sagan said 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. We believe we have that."

Is Sagan speaking from the grave?

[Tupelo]

“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.

[Larry Lucido]

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!

[HighSierra5]

Don’t worry. The powers that be will be working on racial physics.

[Larry Lucido]

Sub atomic particles used to be huge!

And they cost a nickel!

[Karma_Sherab]

Now we are finding out that Physics is not settled science.

Well, thank gawd that the science of covid is settled, eh? /sarcasm

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4053191/posts

[Red Badger]

They were two for a nickel when I was a kid!...............

[I want the USA back]

“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.

[BikerJoe]

Now we are finding out that Physics is not settled science.

As Feynman said (paraphrasing) "No theory is proven to be right. It just hasn't been proven wrong (yet)."

[telescope115]

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.

[TheCipher]

Don’t worry. The powers that be will be working on racial physics

They are already starting

Seattle professor claims physics is racist, white supremacy rampant in classrooms

[rightwingcrazy]

“Sub atomic particles used to be huge!

And they cost a nickel!”

Nowadays, they’re packed with flavor.

[TheCipher]

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.

[TheCipher]

The above refers to post 14

[SecondAmendment]

The famous astronomer Carl Sagan said 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. We believe we have that."

That quote is before he testified about climate change (aka global warming) on Capitol Hill ..

[super7man]

"If the results are verified by other experiments, the world is going to look different."

Nope. Already checked that. Went out on the deck and the world looks the same.

[4Liberty]

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? ;)