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It's not clickbait if you're into physics, because then the article is exactly what you'd expect. But a lot of people in the general public tend to mistake "par
by sigmoid10 2y ago
It's not clickbait if you're into physics, because then the article is exactly what you'd expect. But a lot of people in the general public tend to mistake "particle" for "elementary particle" which would of course be a much bigger discovery that would not end up a side note in some blogs and instead be on the front page of every science news outlet. At least that seems to be what got people fed up in the old post's comments.
- davrosthedalek 2y agoI am a physics professor and I think this is borderline clickbait.
- fecal_henge 2y agoI really hope you prefix all your statements in life with that.
- sigmoid10 2y agoWhat kind of discovery did you expect when you clicked on the link?
- davrosthedalek 2y agoI expected it to be clickbait and be a quasi-particle.
- sigmoid10 2y agoIf you already know what the truth is, how is it bait? Or were you actually secretly hoping to see a nobel worthy press release by one of the large LHC collaborations in a random news site that somehow slipped through every physicists daily life until then? Because that would be a different problem...
- davrosthedalek 2y agoBeing able to recognize clickbait doesn't make the clickbait not clickbait.