> I can't believe they pick such a clickbaity title for a serious publication and let quanta magazine publish an even more clickbaity article about it. Well, I

> I can't believe they pick such a clickbaity title for a serious publication and let quanta magazine publish an even more clickbaity article about it. Well, I guess they need more funding. My take from reading the article (not a physicist) is the physics of the nucleus (i.e. the protons and neutrons and strong nuclear force) are treated as emergent phenomena from the quantum theories about fundamental particles (e.g. quarks, leptons & gluons). Per the article, such leading theory of the nucleus is "chiral effective theory," which seems to be quite inaccurate at making predictions for the experiment in question. I'm not sure how much more accurate the headline could be, unless chiral effective theory is not in fact the ex ante leading theory of the nucleus.