Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle

alevy writes to mention that scientists at Fermilab have detected a new, completely untheorized particle. Seems like Fermi has been a hotbed of activity lately with the discovery of a new single top quark and narrowing the gap twice on the Higgs Boson particle. "The Y(4140) particle is the newest member of a family of particles of similar unusual characteristics observed in the last several years by experimenters at Fermilab's Tevatron as well as at KEK and the SLAC lab, which operates at Stanford through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. 'We congratulate CDF on the first evidence for a new unexpected Y state that decays to J/psi and phi,' said Japanese physicist Masanori Yamauchi, a KEK spokesperson. 'This state may be related to the Y(3940) state discovered by Belle and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks. We will try to confirm this state in our own Belle data.'"

Comments

Re:But, but Photons ARE slowed down

[Cyberax]

Nope. You're wrong, photons ARE NOT slowed down, ever (well, except for Casimir vacuum and virtual photons).

Photons traveling in material are constantly adsorbed and re-emitted, that's why they appear to travel slower.

Re:Thank goodness

[Anonymous Coward]

No. Everyone == Everyone.

Its the "christians" (or in other words people) that make the distinctions. But heck He knows that and loves them inspite of that.

Oh, wait! you were trolling, hoping to catch a Christian so you can push your personal view onto them. Sorry. I guess I'll just post anon so I don't have to listen to your fanatical rave about how all religion is evil.

Sheesh, sometimes you athiests are worse than the "Christian" "fundamentalists".

Re:Thank goodness

[Kjella]

There once was a time when scientists weren't fundamentalist anti-religious bigots. But I suppose that time has passed.

Yes, but personally I'm glad the Dark Ages has ended. Fortunately the flat-earthers in the Catholic church can no longer send the Inquisition (the Roman, not the Spanish) after the heretics. It took over a thousand years up to the renaissance just for science to return to where the Greeks were. Religion has been nothing but a destructive force in science ranging from oppression to absurd pseudoscience trying to comply with religious answers and completely unscientiific denial of results that do not fit the religious world view. If the church is not very welcome among scientists, well you reap what you sow (Galatians 6:7).