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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by svachalek on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:56PM (#28014208)
Given the massive energy required to do experiments like these and the microscopic scale in both physical and time dimensions I think we're centuries away from doing something practical with the particle itself. It may be the missing piece of some future technology we can't even imagine yet.

I think the more immediate motivation is to help either validate our current understanding of how the universe works, or to break the model in an interesting way.

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