The Extra Muon Wobble in the Firmi Lab Experiment

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The wobbling meon in the firmi lab experiment is like a little bread crumb of a clue. It could be caused by a lepto quork, this new particle, super symmetry or maybe even a new force we haven't discovered yet. Scientists need to keep doing more experiments to head down each one of these paths and see if these bread crumbs lead to a loaf.

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.

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