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Physics Said These Quantum Particles Couldn't Exist. Now, Math Has Proven They Can
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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You can prove a lot of things with math. Doesn't mean they're real.
“And math’s just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality ”
Source: xkcd, every major’s terrible, square 2
Here's a better media coverage of the same paper https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00030-5
Fair point. And another poster voiced his frustration with the headline. And I guess I am not smart enough to realize that this was a poor article.
I'm not being smarmy, I honestly didn't realize it was a bad science article.
As a rule of thumb, you can usually assume anything from iflscience is trash tier.
Understood. I'll note that moving forward. Thanks!
When you predict a new phenomenon from a current model, either you've opened the door to the discovery of this new phenomenon or you've demonstrated a shortcoming in the model. Both are useful to science.