Brookhaven Probing Unknown Form of Matter (Maybe)

boowax writes "The New York Times (free registration required) reports that there may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. This apparently has come from interpretation of data gathered from work with muons and discrepancies between predicted wobble and the actual affect. Their are doubters though, who claim that the difference comes from problems with the calculations used for prediction and not a separate form of matter."

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Matter matters

[eyepeepackets]

Yes, but the article suggests some interesting questions:

"What does it matter?"

or

"Does the new matter matter to hatter?"

or the obvious, "What's the (new) matter?"

Yes, the article is certainly weak, mostly due to the fact that, as the one fella in the article says, it's all somewhat premature.

Perhaps the most important point made in the article is the one about the Bush administration killing funding for the research: Where do the Bushies think all the new technology they can lock up for corporations comes from, anyway?

this is new york...

[Aniquel]

It's on Long Island. Of course they're going to discover new forms of matter. Hell, I discover new forms of matter just walking down the streets of NYC.