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Published online 3 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1203
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Spectral particles spook physicsts
Ghostly visitors appear inside Tevatron accelerator.
Unexplained 'ghost particles' are mysteriously appearing inside a US-based high-energy physics experiment.
Bloggers and theorists are already lining up explanations that involve unseen particles, hypothetical strings, or modifications of conventional physics.
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when similarly charged particles and antiparticles (need not be particles' own respective antiparticles) collide they may be forming so far unknown particles which might be appearing as a rather new phenomenon as discovered in the cited experiments.
as I understand it muons are easy to detetct. It looks like real phenomemnon.
That would be really interesting if they found other particles behaving like muons. They might be useful for catalyzing muonic fusion.
It is getting rather close to 2012. I am an existentialist, but still, this so called day may have a prelude. It's nice to just be a bystander and watch what happens to bright people when they find the unexpected. Do these spectres resemble bugles? RT