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Scientists Found Dark Electrons: a Secret Quantum State Hidden in Solid Matter (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Researchers have just found evidence of “dark electrons”—electrons you can’t see using spectroscopy—in solid materials.
By analyzing the electrons in palladium diselenide, the team was able to find states that functionally cancel each other out, blocking the electrons in those “dark states” from view.
The scientists believe this behavior is likely to be found across many other substances as well, and could help explain why some superconductors behave in unexpected ways.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I'm a lot more worried that we're actually just the little color patterns that float around the outside of a soap bubble. That we're just the error rate in a dynamic creation/annihilation event that happens everywhere.