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Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by htx80nerd on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:38PM (#46963653)
>"It might be the first whisper of dark matter"

Come now.

Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? by mattlangston on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:42PM (#46965679)
Fair - that sounds hyperbolic. But my point is specific: if the weak mixing angle is shifted from the Standard Model value, one of the standard explanations is a heavier cousin of the Z boson mixing in.

Many of those models naturally include a dark matter candidate. I didn't mean to imply 'we found dark matter' — it's that the theories which could explain the discrepancy often come with one attached.