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I only skimmed the article, but claiming discovery of a "new particle" seems extremly bogus. According to wikipedia [1], the cited paper merely demonstrates th
by 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