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The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)
- exmadscientist 5y agoMore discussion, back from the data release announcement in April: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-something-happens-it-is.html http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-somet... (Warning, extremely jargon heavy, particularly the comments.)
- kadoban 5y agoCool! From my layman's read of that, the odds are good for new physics and/or a new particle, and it sounds like said new particle is actually in a soon-detectable range. That's pretty ideal!
- hutrdvnj 5y agoYes, but "soon" in experimental particle physics means something like: probably within the next 20 years.
- kadoban 5y agoYa, physics does seem to require quite a bit of patience. Anything that could possibly get figured out during my lifetime I count as a win :)
- exmadscientist 5y agoAnd keep in mind that these are theorists, the eternal optimists. Or think of your (least?) favorite group of sports fans, just before the season starts, talking about how awesome it's going to be. That mental image isn't too far off... (In case it wasn't obvious, I'm on the experimental side of things. There's a reason Jester says we're i brutti, and he isn't wrong....)
- peter303 5y agoI just heard Wilczek describe this
- Koshkin 5y agohttps://nextcloud.fysik.su.se/s/ii79B9Xyaqq8EdS?dir=undefined&openfile=3343749 https://nextcloud.fysik.su.se/s/ii79B9Xyaqq8EdS?dir=undefine...
- showerst 5y agoThere's also a nice discussion from Sixty Symbols when the news came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk
- ayane_m 5y agoCan the page title contain markup? On my browser, I see `<i>g</i>` in the title on the tab.
- mikewarot 5y agoSo the Fermilab team got a bigger value for σ than Brookhaven? What is σ? It took me a while to find that fallen forward q - lower case sigma σ
- s_gourichon 5y agoIt's "explained" to the reader of the comics. The title had me expect it was "explained scientifically", in other words "solved by the scientists".