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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Re:More informative article

[mike3411]

Good post, but your sig's incorrect.
1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; --> 1 = +/- 1
I prefer:
1/3 = .3repeating, (1/3)*3=1, .3repeating*3=.9repeating, .9repeating = 1.
our math system sucks.

Re:More informative article

[mike3411]

way to fail to read my post, the first part of my comment was exactly what you just said, that x^2=y^2 does not mean x=y. as for the second part, .9repeating shouldn't (imho) equal 1, since they're two different numbers. Granted, .9repeating is infinately close to 1, but there _is_ a difference between a number that is infinately close to another number, and that number itself.