Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is amiss'

Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by smueller1234 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @01:34PM (#30979452)

Totally plausible indeed! One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue.

And from a different field, but closer to the quip: semiconductor lithography lenses' own weight causes stresses that cause birefringence in the optics that has to be explicitly corrected for. And that was true 20 years ago already.

(Recovering particle physicist here and thinking about this even much later gives me mild trauma. ;) )

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by heavyset_go on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:15PM (#31022719)

> One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue.

Have more info on this or link about it?

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by perihelions on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:23PM (#31022778)

I'm guessing the parent is referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by smueller1234 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:57AM (#31023822)

Yes, thank you, that's the one I was thinking about. Apologies for not naming/linking it in the first place.

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:44AM (#31023492)

"EM Drive" also probably counts.

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by ben_w on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:22AM (#31024488)

From what I’ve been hearing, EM drive is more of “didn’t do the maths” followed by shoestring-budget “might as well try it, we have some spare lab space” work getting squished in between the serious projects.

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by heavyset_go on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:03PM (#31030781)

Thanks

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