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Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Cat Is Both Alive and Dead

There's an infinite number of things the meon can do. If you want to get it like really, really accurately, then you need to sum over thousands and thousands of these different possibilities. These are all different possibilities of what it can do, but somehow they all affect its magnetic field. We use something called perturbation theory which tells us that we do the biggest tions first,. Then the more ones that we add, sort of, we're just refining the smaller and smaller decimal places. And most importantly, some of these create particles that have the strong nuclear force in them.

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