Scientists Discovered a Shockingly Tiny New Particle. They've Never Seen Anything Like It.
By Elizabeth Rayne
By Elizabeth Rayne
Quote:As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration were sifting through data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and potentially picked up a signal for what could be—if proven—the smallest composite particle ever.
This discovery was something of an accident, as it emerged out of the search for new types of Higgs bosons...
Quote:... This is the closest anyone has ever come to observing this hypothetical particle. While it does’t necessarily mean that the presence of Higgs bosons is ruled out, the uncertainty level was only 15%, above the five-sigma level of certainty needed to claim that something was observed in particle physics. Toponium (if confirmed to exist) would be the last missing example of quark-antiquark states known as quarkonium...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell