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Someone knowledgeable, please tell us why this is just runaway science journalism before we get too excited! This is potentially the most groundbreaking stuff
by isoprophlex 7y ago
Someone knowledgeable, please tell us why this is just runaway science journalism before we get too excited!
This is potentially the most groundbreaking stuff in decades, right?
- tomrod 7y agoTrust, but verify. The fun of science is discovering what a new discovery unlocks. The responsibility of science is replication, replication, replication!
- ddavis 7y agoWe're going to need an independent experiment to see this "X17" before anyone truly believes it's a new particle. Some example major particle discoveries over the last few decades (and the independent experiments which observed them): Higgs (ATLAS & CMS at CERN); Top quark (CDF & D0 Fermilab); W & Z Bosons (UA1 and UA2 at CERN); J/Psi (Richter's team at SLAC & Ting's team at MIT). Some other fundamental particles were observed by a single experiment (the bottom quark, for example) and the community believed it, but in those cases it's always because a theory has already predicted the particle, and we've always been able to study them with future experiments anyway. So this won't gain traction unless another experiment can observe it.