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Majorana particle glimpsed
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Majorana particle glimpsed
April 13, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Quote:Scientists think they may finally have seen evidence for a famously elusive quarry in particle physics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17695944
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RE: Majorana particle glimpsed
April 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm
I read this as "marijuana particle glimpsed". I need weed...
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RE: Majorana particle glimpsed
April 13, 2012 at 2:42 pm (This post was last modified: April 13, 2012 at 2:43 pm by Phil.)
A fermion is a particle. What we have here is...
BBC article Wrote:"The system is still built out of atoms, with nuclei and electrons, but the electrons behave together in such a way that their collective state is a Majorana fermion."

Seems to me this is another case of botched science reporting by a non-scientist.
(April 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I read this as "marijuana particle glimpsed". I need weed...

Wouldn't that be a bud?
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RE: Majorana particle glimpsed
April 13, 2012 at 2:47 pm
I dunno. If there were a marijuana particle, it would explain a heck of a lot.
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RE: Majorana particle glimpsed
April 13, 2012 at 2:51 pm
(April 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I read this as "marijuana particle glimpsed". I need weed...
I was gonna post the same thing. Big Grin

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RE: Majorana particle glimpsed
April 14, 2012 at 12:55 pm
They didn't discover the "majorana particle". That doesn't even make sense. That's like saying they "discovered the dirac fermion".

The group got indirect evidence of a quasi particle with majorana fermion properties. A lot of scientists in the solid state community have known about these and, I hate to break it to the reporter, but a number have gotten evidence of similar systems. This study just happens to be a particularly good one.
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