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07 May 2020: Galileo and the science deniers, and physicists probe the mysterious pion
Nature Podcast
How to Detect Pions With a Powerful Laser
The world's most powerful Pion source is located in the Paul Scharer Institute near theory in Switzerland. The way our experiment was designed, we could only expect to see two or three atoms per hour resonating with the laser and producing a signal. It took more than a month to collect enough data running 24 hours to be sure. We can possibly determine the Pions mass with a precision of perhaps eight or nine digits, hopefully. This would be 100 times or even more precise than in previous experimental methods.
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