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Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Are Youjus Saying Lepton Universality?

Youjus said the words lepton universality. What does that mean? Is that like lepton university? Or it's a different campus, lepton universality? That's just a way of saying that the universe treats the ele ons and the mulons and the tows the same way doyou now democratic an that these particles should all appear at the same rate when you have a particle decaying. So then you measured these outcomes, electrons versus mulons, and you found that one comes out more than the other, which could mean something. And is it pretty conclusive, or are you still sort of in the initial stages where it could maybe be a statistical fluke? It

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