A cosmic ray research facility on the Tibetan Plateau has detected the brightest yet of a type of light particle so strong that no law of physics can explain it.… The Chinese experiment, which discovered more than a dozen photons, could help dispel scepticism over oh-my-God particles’ existence.
First the Impossible Burger*. Now the Impossible Particle. Aka “the Oh-my-God” particle.
I don’t understand why these don’t get the same attention as the discovery of the Higgs Boson (aka the “God particle”). After all, we’re talking about things that confound the known laws of physics, here.
Maybe it’s because it’s China. And from a facility on the Tibetan plateau. The bit in Sichuan. But that itself may be “problematic”. Anyway, I don’t get it.
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| China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory Which discovered the new type light particle |
*ADDED: I’ve had Impossible Burgers, the vegetarian burger. It’s delicious. But: (1) they’re twice the price of the same-size burger made with minced beef. More importantly: (2) they have a load of salt and way higher carbs than the meat equivalent. In sum: they are worse for your wallet and your body than a proper home-made meat burger. (By “proper” I mean ethically raised and ethically processed meat, no added salt or other nonsense additives. Just some choooed onion; and otherwise keep it simple).
This may seem a stretch from cosmic rays, bit not so much. One of the reasons I was eating the non-meat burger was because I know we have to get off meat production to reduce greenhouse gases (livestock and agriculture produce about a quarter of CO2 emissions). But it turns out they’re not that good for you, and also not so carbon friendly cause they’re still razing forests to plant soya. The long term in that one has to be laboratory made meat. So we can save the planet for no one sapiens to be able to discover more God and Oh-my-God particles.
