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Wasn’t there an article a week ago about a new particle found “on a tabletop”? Feels like I'm being hustled.
by trentnix 4y ago
Wasn’t there an article a week ago about a new particle found “on a tabletop”?
Feels like I'm being hustled.
- Hellion 4y agoStop reading pop science articles
- quickthrower2 4y agoProbably a food particle
- gus_massa 4y agoI remember that report, it was a very confusing press article. They used a tabletop device to make a "simulation" of a Higgs boson inside a semiconductor. It was not a new elementary particle like an electron or a photon. Is solid state physics they don't call those thing a "simulation", they call a quasiparticle. They are not a single entity, but they behave almost like a single entity, so if yu are working in the are it's easier to make the calculation as if they are a single entity. Moreover, most of the time they just call the particles, but everyone in the area and physicist in other areas understand that they are talking about quasiparticles. The problem is when the new reach the press and that implicit understanding is lost.