Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered

ZonkerWilliam writes to mention PhysOrg is reporting that a tiny particle with no charge, called an 'axion' has been discovered. From the article: "The finding caps nearly three decades of research both by Piyare Jain, Ph.D., UB professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and lead investigator on the research, who works independently -- an anomaly in the field -- and by large groups of well-funded physicists who have, for three decades, unsuccessfully sought the recreation and detection of axions in the laboratory, using high-energy particle accelerators."

Comments

What did the bartender say to the axion?

[Anonymous Coward]

"No charge."

Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Now where's that big friggin' hook....

In the box with or without the cat.

Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?

[joe_bruin]

"No charge."

Don't be confused. This particle has no charge, it's free as in beer.

Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?

[proxy318]

An atom walks into a police station and says "One of my electrons has been stolen!"
The police say "Are you sure?"
And the atom replies...

"Yes! I'm positive!"

Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?

[Anonymous Coward]

With AND without the cat.

Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?

[Surt]

With the cat. Dead or Alive, the cat is still there.

Won't hold a charge...

[__aaclcg7560]

Even in the field of particle physics, there had to be a slacker somewhere.

Re:This is a big deal

[AuMatar]

String theory will merely add a 29th dimnension where axions can exist to make the math work.

They say the axion has no charge?

[Z1NG]

Are they positive?

Re:They find an axion??

[Cyberax]

Well, physicists can do this, but this would involve smashing Earth to pieces and looking at its debris.

BTW, and they would need about $10000000000000000000 funding for LEC (Large Earth Collider).

Re:They find an axion??

[fimbulvetr]

Well, physicists can do this, but this would involve smashing Earth to pieces and looking at its debris.

BTW, and they would need about $10000000000000000000 funding for LEC (Large Earth Collider).

About the same requirements as the US military then, eh?

I for one, do not welcome our new Overlords

[CrazyJim1]

We must defeat the Axion of evil.

No Charge eh?

[vivin]

No Charge! Shouldn't be too hard to justify the cost of this research! ;)

Anyways, pretty good!

Re:and it means...

[alexhard]

axion () means worthy in greek. ;) I actually read 'geek' first and sat here wondering 'when did we get our own language?' for a couple of seconds..

Re:true?

[rentedflowers]

You're missing the really groundbreaking development here, though.

This is a /. article, claiming a scientific discovery, that is traceable to a peer-reviewed journal article. A well-respected journal, no less. This is truly a first.

Funding

[OldManAndTheC]

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Particle physics news usually gives me a charge...

[thewiz]

but this story left me feeling kind of neutral about the whole thing.

Re:geek language

[Poltras]

!true. You !make (assumptions || hypothesis) && !(proof). Please; Bring( proof )->clarify.

Well gee I'm not a physicist, but...

[Hrothgar The Great]

probably resides in another dimension

Are you sure you heard this from a real source? Are you sure that maybe you didn't get drunk and pass out while your television was playing DRAGONBALL Z RERUNS?

Re:Look, it's very simple.

[mbelly]

They already did...