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Chinese researchers confirm existence of glueball – a new form of matter (news.cgtn.com)
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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A candidate for dark matter!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

I still think dark matter is kipple.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maybe not impossible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball#Mass_and_parity

Glueballs are predicted by quantum chromodynamics to be massive, despite the fact that gluons themselves have zero rest mass in the Standard Model.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago

bottom quark