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Sure I think we’re already doing that, but I also think this makes it very difficult to observe results let alone make controlled experiments. I can’t recall an
by ThePhysicist 8y ago
Sure I think we’re already doing that, but I also think this makes it very difficult to observe results let alone make controlled experiments. I can’t recall any particle or fundamental force that was validated / found in this way, the only thing I can think of are tests of the theory of general relativity that use astronomical observations, but I don’t recall anything in the field of particle physics (it’s not my field though so I might just have missed it).
- sandworm101 8y agoThe hunt for dark matter, for whatever particle/string/widget is involved, is a particle physics problem. String theory may find support, or not, through the observation of black holes (ie fuzzball). Neutrino detectors made big contributions in thier day.
- enriquto 8y agoGoing much further in the past, you have the discovery of the element helium, whose existence was predicted by the periodic table, and it was detected first in the sun atmosphere (looking at the spectrum of sunlight during an eclipse) than on earth (where it is very abundant, but mixed with natural gas).
- peteradio 8y ago> I can’t recall any particle or fundamental force that was validated / found in this way LIGO? Gravity waves?
- ThePhysicist 8y agoThat’s what I meant with tests of general relativity. Ligo didn’t prove the existence of gravitons though.
- raverbashing 8y agoBefore particle accelerators, we had physicists climbing mountains and pointing photographic film at the skies
- eigenhombre 8y agoCounterexample: discovery of the positron in cosmic radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron#Natural_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron#Natural_production