Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
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Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
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Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#2Another story of mixing up (misrepresenting in press releases and reporting) a solid-state physics result with a high-energy physics result.
And a "tabletop experiment" in physics refers to it being at room-scale or lab-scale, not looking for particles literally "on a tabletop".
Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#3While that’s the title the post makes it clear: ‘Physicists didn’t Discover Never-Before Seen Particle Sitting on a Tabletop.’
Seems like editing the title might be reasonable.
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#4Columbia physicist calls out click-bait style abstract, by writing an article with it’s own click-bait title.
If this is supposed to be ironic it’s not working for me.
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#5There's a bit of history here where condensed matter physicists enjoy finding analogues and porting over mathematical ideas and theories applied primarily in higher energy particle physics. See: the humble skyrmion that started its life as a doomed particle physics model.
The rub here is calling is a Higgs MODE and specifically not a higgs particle.
The scientists aren't really at fault here, since it looks like within the field the Higgs mode is well understood and the main aim of these paper is other scientists.
Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#6While that’s the title the post makes it clear: ‘Physicists didn’t Discover Never-Before Seen Particle Sitting on a Tabletop.’ Seems like editing the title might be reasonable.
Pretty sure he's being funny by pretending to be breathlessly excited about something false.
Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#7Imagine the claim is justified, and pools of quantum fluids can transition into a phase that is decoupled from electromagnetic fields, and become dark matter. It would still be baryonic and would become ordinary matter just by heat. We don't have a lot of experience with what happens when quantum mechanical effects expand to a cosmological scale. Who would be surprised to find new physics there.
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#8Deleted ... misunderstanding.
/mea culpa/
Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#9> “This result is almost elegant in its simplicity — it’s really rare to find a new particle with a super clean signature without a lot of fanfare,” said Prineha Narang, an assistant professor at Harvard and a principal investigator through the QSC, a U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center headquartered at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Well, to be fair...
Re: Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
#10Deleted ... misunderstanding. /mea culpa/
The link submitted here is Woit's link.