Physicists Postulate Existance of New Particle

corngrower writes "University of Washington physicists postulate the existence of a new particle called the acceleron which links dark energy with the neutrino. The theory offers an explanation for the recent discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe."

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Re:Hmmm

[nine-times]

There was a furor that surrounded the nuetrino when it was first thought up and they did think that it was so weakly interacting that they'd never find it. Turns out that several hundred tonnes of chlorine and some sensitive photodetectors embedded in a mountain do the trick.

That's not necessarily definitive. How did they decide what would be a valid "detection" of nuetrinos? Is the method of detection valid? Or could it there be something other than nuetrinos which would set off this "detector"?

I mean, you could have a witch detector, which is a stake on top of a bondfire. If the woman burns to death, she's a witch. You could go around testing women left and right, and you'd find your detector worked quite well, and proved that there are witches everywhere....

and oh, wait. I know what you're going to say. They figured out the detector "scientifically"! Meaning, according to the current scientific theory of how things work. Meaning they're proving their scientific theory by means that are proved to be good means according to the scientific theory they're trying to prove. I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong, but it aint definitive.