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While excitations in super conductors are interesting, and technically can be considered particles, a headline that claims the discovery of a new particle is mo
by cwillu 4y ago
While excitations in super conductors are interesting, and technically can be considered particles, a headline that claims the discovery of a new particle is more than a little misleading.
- isaacfrond 4y agoAre you sure, they claim it might explain dark matter, that should be a massive particle.
- cwillu 4y agoHonestly, the article feels confused, using the terms “higgs particle” and “higgs mode” interchangeably. I suspect that significant losses happened in translation to layman-speak, and if you grant such losses may have occurred, “this is new evidence that there may be an axial higgs particle, given that we can make an axial higgs-by-analogy in our fancy superconducting material” feels like more likely source material than “we found the holy grail: direct evidence of another higgs, without needing an lhc to do it”. I could be wrong, but the physics version of a biology headline missing the words “…in mice” is “…in condensed matter”.
- cwillu 4y agoFWIW, if the title is actually correct, this is a big deal, and actual physicists will be writing actual blog posts explaining why in not too long. Sabine will probably have several, along with a video explaining why this breakthrough proves that the LHC was a waste of resources from the start :) If it's not, then… ‹silence falls›
- isaacfrond 4y agorotfl