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Atom Smasher Detects Hints of New Unstable Particle
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest atom smasher, just discovered at least two previously unknown particles.
The 17-mile (27 kilometers) underground ring near Geneva recently discovered two baryons and a hint of another particle, according to a statement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which runs the LHC. Baryons are fundamental subatomic particles that are each made up of three quarks. The quarks, in turn, are even smaller particles that come in different "flavors": up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm.
[...] The first, named Σb(6097)+, is made up of one bottom quark and two up quarks, while the second, named Σb(6097)-, is made up of one bottom quark and two down quarks. [...] As for the third potential particle, the researchers discovered only hints that it exists. Named Z sub c-(4100), this particle could be a weird meson, a type of unstable particle that briefly flits into existence during high-energy collisions and that consists of two quarks and two antiquarks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @07:22PM
Not really.
You crash two chevys at high speed. When you examing the burning and smoking wreckage you claim it looks sort of like some other chinese cars were part of the crash so they must have been there at some stage but they are cars so badly made they immediately and spontaneously fell apart.
See, makes perfect sense..and totally believable...and not just that these particles are smooshed together for a short while sort of like when you hold two magnets together or tow solar systems pass through each other...
Because Occam's chainsaw and stuff.
A prius would involve new components such as batteries...