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Neat! What can you imagine might be applications for exotic particles like this? (even if if it's a stretch or fictional)
by rkagerer 5y ago
Neat! What can you imagine might be applications for exotic particles like this? (even if if it's a stretch or fictional)
- svachalek 5y agoGiven the massive energy required to do experiments like these and the microscopic scale in both physical and time dimensions I think we're centuries away from doing something practical with the particle itself. It may be the missing piece of some future technology we can't even imagine yet. I think the more immediate motivation is to help either validate our current understanding of how the universe works, or to break the model in an interesting way.
- dukwon 5y agoIn the world of double-open-heavy-flavour hadrons (to which this particular tetraquark belongs), you get bullshit headlines like this https://www.sciencealert.com/new-quark-fusion-releases-significant-energy-won-t-make-weapons https://www.sciencealert.com/new-quark-fusion-releases-signi...