
Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is There Really an Infinite Number of Possibilities?
In reality, there's just a number. So you can sodnt predict what the meos magnetic field is supposed to be from all these other virtual particles. And then you can also go out and measure the magnetic field using an experiment exactly. 20 years ago at brookhaven, they did this experiment where they line up a bunch of muons, they get them all spinning in the right direction,. Then they shoot them into their machine, which zips them around in a circle using a big magnetic field. They found that the answer didn't really agree with their theoretical calculations. Because people were wondering about, like, why doesn't this agree? so they decided they needed to do another
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