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Researchers orbit a muon around an atom, confirm physics is broken
- mr_overalls 10y agoTitle is garbage, seemingly typical of the decline of science journalism. The researchers orbited a muon around a deuterium nucleus, not an atom. And physics isn't broken, but this experiment adds to to recent evidence that the Standard Model (and supersymmetry) are showing serious flaws.
- ccvannorman 10y agoCan you cite the other recent anti-standard-model results?
- mr_overalls 10y agoSorry, I should have said only "anti-supersymmetry." While I'm an interested amateur, I only have undergraduate degree in physics. Perhaps someone who is currently working in the field can comment.
- PeterisP 10y agoNice garbage title about an experiment where the interviewed researchers repeatedly say that they're explicitly not claiming that "physics is broken". While yes, one interpretation could be that this indicates some new physics, the most likely explanation in their opinion (which might be a bit more trustworthy than the "journalists") is that the physics is as-is but simply our current/earlier estimates of the Rydberg constant are wrong, and that this needs some extra experiments to verify. The earlier article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270483 about the same experiment explains this far more better, this is a poor quality dupe.