CERN finds hints of 'entirely new' particle!

[Jason]

Supercharged LHC finds hints of entirely new particle

Two separate teams of physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have identified signs of a new fundamental particle of nature. While hypotheses abound as to what exactly this particle could be - if it exists at all - the most popular opinion seems to be that it's a heavier version of the Higgs boson, the particle that explains why other particles have mass.

"I don’t think there is anyone around who thinks this is conclusive," one of the researchers, Kyle Cranmer from New York University, told The New York Times. "But it would be huge if true."

After a hiatus of more than two years, the LHC was fired up again in June to continue smashing particles together - this time at record-breaking energy levels of around 13 trillion electron volts. (In case you’re wondering, an electron volt is a unit of energy equal to approximately 1.602×10-19 joules, and 6.5 trillion electron volts is twice the energy level used to detect the Higgs boson for the first time in 2012.)

Since then, both the CMS and ATLAS detectors at the LHC have recorded a spike in activity at a particular energy level, corresponding to around 750 giga electronvolts (GeV) - or roughly 750 billion electron volts.

Found hidden in the debris of proton-proton collisions, this unexplained signal could be the sign of a new particle that resembles the Higgs boson, only it’d be around 12 times heavier, with a mass of 1,500 GeV.

http://www.sciencealert.com/supercharge ... mitstart=1

An entirely new particle outside predictions of theoretical particle physics? Now we're cooking with gasoline.

[cronus]

Doesn't surprise me. Einstein as been wrong ever since he admitted it. That makes me right now...

[JimC]

Don't anyone tell Seth, he might cry...

[Seth]

Don't anyone tell Seth, he might cry...

I think they should name it "Pandorium."

[pErvinalia]

I think they're nth dimension massive gravitons that are ready to pour into our dimension through a micro black hole and eat us all up. This madness (science) must be stopped! The Amish have got it right.

[tattuchu]

I think they're nth dimension massive gravitons that are ready to pour into our dimension through a micro black hole and eat us all up. This madness (science) must be stopped! The Amish have got it right.

Especially the barn raisins. I usually don't like raisins but barn raisins are absolutely delicious! Wait, I'm thinking of cranraisins. Nevermind. Anyway, you're probably right, rEv; the madeleines must be stomped.

[Seth]

Don't anyone tell Seth, he might cry...

I think they should name it "Pandorium."

The singular might be "Pandoron."

[Brian Peacock]

Don't anyone tell Seth, he might cry...

And I nominate "moronium".