First Evidence of Elusive 'Triangle Singularity' Shows Particles Swapping Identities (livescience.com)

LiveScience reports that physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data "have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity."

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Supersymmetry’s absence: Lack of new particles suggests need to consider new theories

Gaps in band of stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way could reveal secrets of dark matter

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“This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time ever, we can film quantum mechanics - and its paradoxical nature - directly.” - Fabrizio Carbone, Ph.D., Lead Scientist, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland


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THE WEASEL:

first, regarding the phone caller who keeps leaving the sound of a large rifrigerator on my answering machine...  i have gotten other "dropped"(?) calls, and have been researching them - they mainly go back to a chicago company that is highly nefarious and which disquises itself in a variety of ways, and sometimes, when it DOES talk, it ( Read more... )