Anomalous particles emerging from the Earth in Antarctica

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Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Live Science has an article dramatically entitled "Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics":
https://www.livescience.com/63692-standa...ysics.html

It seems that on three occasions bursts of high-energy particles have been detected after passing through the Earth. A new paper calculates the probability of the Standard Model producing the observed data as 1 in 3.5 million, so it's suggested they are new particles.

Maybe I'm not really understanding the implications of this. There seem to have been so many new particles over the years. Maybe "extend" would be a more appropriate word than "shatter"?
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(2018-09-29, 08:06 AM)Chris Wrote: Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Live Science has an article dramatically entitled "Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics":
https://www.livescience.com/63692-standa...ysics.html

It seems that on three occasions bursts of high-energy particles have been detected after passing through the Earth. A new paper calculates the probability of the Standard Model producing the observed data as 1 in 3.5 million, so it's suggested they are new particles.

Maybe I'm not really understanding the implications of this. There seem to have been so many new particles over the years. Maybe "extend" would be a more appropriate word than "shatter"?

The suggestion from some quarters is that they might be super symmetric particles... and dark matter... thus moving us towards supersymmetry. Won't comment on extending and shattering... although for some people if that suggestion turns out correct... it might be be shattering
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring 
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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(2018-09-29, 12:35 PM)Max_B Wrote: The suggestion from some quarters is that they might be ...  dark matter... 

Well what do ya know?  Invent a god of the gaps, get enough scientists to believe in him and he shows his face!
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