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CERN Confirms Ultra-Rare Particle Transformation, Hints at New Physics
(www.sciencealert.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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Feel free to actually read the article if more clarification is needed.
experimentally observed - yes this is the crux of the philosophical issue that makes me unable to sleep. Real or an illusion of something else altogether
Do the things we measure are real or are just the symptoms
When you're dealing with particle physics, unless I'm mistaken, the term "experimentally observed" means "non-wild" or "controlled environment observation" and is interchangeable with "observed" as in non-particle physics.
Humans can't physically observe subatomic particles, nor can we (at current) capture real-time video or anything of them. We observe the measurements and math from designed and run experientns, and present the finding we make on those events. I'm not sure we'll have any kind of technology to catch an observation in the wild in our lifetimes.
So… are these things real?
Well the things themselves are real. What they e just observed about them changing states is the new part. They will present their findings, wait for peer review, and we'll see if what they observed checks out.