FermiLab Physicists May Have Found New Particle

 

Fermilab's Accelerator Rings

‘Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning to announce Wednesday that they have found found a suspicious bump in their data that could be evidence of a new elementary particle or even, some say, a new force of nature. 

…“Nobody knows what this is,” said Christopher Hill, a theorist at Fermilab who was not part of the team. “If it is real, it would be the most significant discovery in physics in half a century.” ‘  (viaNYTimes.com).

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  1. It always makes me happy when scientists get a reminder of just how much of what they think they know for sure about the universe is still subject to revolutionary revision.

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