Physicists Find Tiny Particle With No Charge, Very Low Mass And Sub-nanosecond Lifetime

ScienceDaily ^ | December 7, 2006

[annie laurie]

Ping

[Defiant]

No mass, low charge, short duration? Sounds like a Episcopalian service.

[AZRepublican]

Oh I'd like to have a look at one of those.

[saganite]

tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond

A liberal idea. Hillary Clinton's conscience. Iraq surrender group proposal.

Join in!

[nomorelurker]

So no charge, no mass and no lifetime = sounds to me as if does not exist.

[annie laurie]

Sounds like it's going to be a fun thread ;-)

[SteveMcKing]

Slashdot has this covered.

Their consensus is that it's seriously flawed, and that the whole thing is wrong.

[Kimmers]

tooooo funny

[muleskinner]

I'm suspicious of the fact that the guy who discovered the particle just happened to be the same guy who published a paper predicting it's existence. 30 years ago. The author is getting old and wants verification - not become a little known footnote in an old physics journal.

[eddie willers]

Ping

[gb63]

Alright. No puns from me, yet...
Let me see.
We have a standard theory.
However, the theory doesn't work in tests because we need more mass to account for dark matter, and we need the dark matter, otherwise our theory is wrong.
Therefore, we need a particle that can account for what's wrong.
So we run a lot of tests, and we select what we want, and ignore what we don't want, and voila! What's left is a new particle to add to all those other particles we had to 'find' to make the theory work.
I think I understand.

[annie laurie]

Quite possibly.

[kinoxi]

What is the weight they are claiming for this particle?

[Tinian]

Physicists Find Tiny Particle With No Charge, Very Low Mass And Sub-nanosecond Lifetime

I knew about this for years. It's called a married woman's sex drive.

[Kevmo]

BFLR = Bump For Later Reading

[Jaysun]

I bet those little particles have a strong urge to do something harmful or shocking. They just don't have the time.

[Kimmers]

"No mass, low charge, short duration?"

Sounds like an X-husband to me....

[dr_who_2]

If physicists weren't obsessed with with the rediculously large or the rediculously small so much of the time, more people might show some interest in physics.