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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hurry up before the budget runs out

[raduga]

Read to the end of the article, to find the Real Problem.

Meanwhile, the experimenters have a more immediate worry: the Bush administration has decided to end their financing after this year.