3 ms·

Can anyone ascertain how much those claims are press release hype?

• dvdkhlng 11y ago
  I only skimmed the article, but claiming discovery of a "new particle" seems extremly bogus. According to wikipedia [1], the cited paper merely demonstrates the finding of a quasi-particle [3] that behaves like a Weyl Fermion. Claiming to have found a new particle in that case is like claiming that magnetic monopoles actually exist based on these findings [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor#Terminology_in_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor#Terminology_in_physics [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_ice#cite_note-MonopoleReview-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_ice#cite_note-MonopoleRev... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle