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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by kmm on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:16PM (#28011909)
Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived.

Long-lived here meaning 10^-10 seconds, instead of 10^-20 seconds. A whole tenth of a nanosecond!

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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by ansible on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:20PM (#28011941)
That is actually quite a long time at the quantum scale.
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