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CERN Confirms Ultra-Rare Particle Transformation, Hints at New Physics (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (15 children)

The number of kaon to pion and neutrino/antineutrino decays the team observed is higher than the 8.4 per 100 billion predicted by the Standard Model, but it's still within the uncertainty parameters.

So then how the fuck does that hint at new physics? Idiots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Whatever particle physicists are, idiots they’re not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” ― James D. Watson, The Double Helix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s many things in which we shouldn’t take scientists at their word indeed, but in their own field there’s a good chance they have something useful to say