‘Extraordinary’ W boson particle finding contradicts understanding of how universe works

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New measurement of fundamental particle of physics after decade-long study challenges theoretical rulebook in scientific ‘mystery’

After a decade of meticulous measurements, scientists have announced that a fundamental particle – the W boson – has a significantly greater mass than theorised, shaking the foundations of our understanding of how the universe works.

However, the most precise measurement ever of the W Boson directly contradicts the rules of the standard model, according to a new study published in Science journal.Ashutosh Kotwal, a physicist at Duke University who led the study, said that the result had taken more than 400 scientists over 10 years to record and scrutinise a “dataset of around 450 trillion collisions”.

The Tevatron stopped running in 2011, but the scientists at the Collider Detector at Fermilab have been crunching numbers ever since.

 

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my god it could just turn off at any moment then ,because it doesnt have to be ,it might choose not to be and thats the end of every thing and thingo ,just nothing not even a full stop ,

Hahhahaa back to the drawing board gravity groupies

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