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Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the met-with-a-neutral-response dept.

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."

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  1. Sorry by mkiwi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    A new particle! OMG Physics!

    Seriously, my sig has been that way for months :)

  2. Re:What did the bartender say to the axion? by i_should_be_working · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ugh. Now where's that big friggin' gong...

  3. Re:UB by unterderbrucke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ya ma nga
    doing it up in capen as i type

  4. same old by roman_mir · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    white is the new black and the dimension is the new epicycle.

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  5. Re:Detected... by xPsi · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    IAAP. As another posted stated: Those forces described are ultimately related to the electrons in the materials of the bullet and gel interacting, via electromagnetic forces, in very, very complex ways. Solving real macroscopic dynamics problems from that point of view isn't generally practical. Obviously, it is easier (and tractable) to think in terms of "effective forces" ("Gel on Bullet", "A on B", etc.) or kinematically (momentum transfers, etc.), as you stated.


    The wake is, strictly speaking, large scale lattice vibrations due to molecular bond stretching. But PHYSICALLY, it is basically purely electromagnetic (and probably something even more fundamental at some deep level). One might argue there is some Pauli-Exculsion going on, but that's not strictly a force of nature, although it can act like one.

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  6. OT by l0cust · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for the laugh. Needed it :)

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