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Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by twic on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:55AM (#23165907)
Is this really so different from particle physicists' "resonances", where they see a peak in a graph and pronounce a new particle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_(particle_physics)

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Re:Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles by knzhou on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:59AM (#23168225)
That's fine because basically everything's a resonance. The only particles that aren't technically resonances are those that have infinite lifetime, i.e. just the proton, electron, and photon.
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