Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is amiss'

Post by thunderbong » Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 7:23 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #35

hprotagonist wrote: post #3

we'd have to change our understanding of how all the particles in the universe work. Well, remember the new paper? We're pretty much entering that worst case scenario. I believe you mean "best case"! There was much hue and cry after the Higgs discovery because the result, at least from the outside, seemed like "welp, we predicted a thing and found it and we don't have any new physics to disagree with; what a letdown!…

Definition of Science: 1 a : a study where participants seek to disprove their own conjectures b: the practice of getting excited when proven wrong because it means more work 2 : a complex study where everything that can go wrong will go wrong, often small or trivial errors (frequently difficult to observe) leading to insanity within participants as they have an existential crisis coming to terms with a new world par…

I'm intrigued by how you got to lighten the text on the second line of your comment. I don't see anything on the formatting help page [0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Post by Flankk » Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #47

Flankk wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering the same thing. Dark matter has never been observed. Its existence is based entirely on equations.

It has been observed, by its effect on other things, and in particular because this effect isn’t always the same. Most galaxies’ stars orbit at the wrong speed, but some behave as expected. Most galaxies gravitationally lens the background more than expected, but in some cases (colliding groups) something that doesn’t shine or reflect any EM radiation is causing lensing next to the galaxy while the galaxy itself is c…

That's right, observations were made that do not fit with our current understanding of physics (equations). That means our understanding is wrong. So instead of assuming the equations are wrong physicists invented an invisible type of matter. That is not science. Dark matter is nothing more than modern day aether.

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