RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2016 at 3:34 pm by Alex K.)
(August 5, 2016 at 11:16 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Okay, I don't understand any of this.
Is that a bad thing?
The lower the line goes in the graph, the less does the measured data fit with the known particles. The old measurement with the blue line goes down far at one point (750) and that marks a deviation from what can be explained by the known particles, and so people suspected that a new particle might be there. The new measurement of the same thing (red line) stays near the top, and so no unusual signal was seen and everything is compatible with the standard theory. Now everyone is convinced the deviation shown by the blue line was just a rare random fluctuation and that there's no new particle
That's bad for science because a new particle there would have revolutionized our understanding of fundamental physics...
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