2 findings could be evidence of new physics
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
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Posted: Apr 07, 2021 3:52 PM ET | Last Updated: April 8
This photo shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. It operates at -450 F (-267 C) to detect the wobble of muons as they travel through a magnetic field. New findings from Fermilab and CERN in Europe are challenging the way physicists believe the universe works. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via The Associated Press)
In this 2018 photo made available by CERN, Nikolai Bondar. works on the LHCb Muon system at the Large Hadron Collider facility outside of Geneva. (Maximilien Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN via AP)
(AP) Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
The tiniest particles aren’t quite doing what is expected of them when spun around two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confounding results if proven right reveal major problems with the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
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This August 2017 photo made available by Fermilab shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via AP)
AP Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
The tiniest particles aren’t quite doing what is expected of them when spun around two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confounding results if proven right reveal major problems with the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
The tiniest particles aren’t quite doing what is expected of them when spun around two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confounding results if proven right reveal major problems with the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
Theoretical physicist Matthew McCullough of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said untangling the mysteries could take us beyond our current understanding of nature.”
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