Truth Remains Stranger than Fiction
this spring . . . two teams of physicists at Fermilab succeeded in measuring a particularly odd schizophrenic particle, known as the strange neutral B meson, that flips back and forth between being itself and its own opposite antiparticle three trillion times a second. Weird as that behavior is, it was right on the money as predicted by the Standard Model.
''Our real hope was for something bizarre,'' admitted Young-Kee Kim of the University of Chicago and a spokeswoman for one of the Fermilab teams.
ESSAY; Physics Awaits New Options As Standard Model Idles, NY Times, July 4, 2006.
Something "more" bizarre than a particle that turns into its own opposite and back three trillion times a second?
















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