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Evidence emerges of 'brand new' physics at CERN

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Hurray for SCIENCE!

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Love this place.

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@BigYen - the "truth" and "beauty" quarks are more often called "top" and "bottom", which is why you might not have heard of them:

https://www.quora.com/Quarks-What-happened-to-Truth-and-Beauty

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particles known as quarks, many of which are unstable and exist only for a split-second, can form heavier particles such as protons and neutrons.

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quarks appeared to also decay into another type of lepton -- muons -- less often than they decayed into electrons.

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So the building blocks for atoms (protons, neutrons and electrons) come from quarks.

So where do quarks come from ?

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Another possibility is the currently hypothetical "lyptoquark", which can decay quarks and leptons simultaneously and which "could be part of a larger puzzle that explains why we see the particles that we do in nature".

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So much more to find and know.

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"brand-new force of nature" = George Lucas proved it in 1977 already :)

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Only 3 sigma so far.

Azzprin “where do quarks come from” well obviously Ferenginar! Or more prosaically as far as my very limited understanding goes quarks and leptons are fundamental particles which make up other particles forming matter, another words they don’t break down in to other constituent particles, as far as we are currently aware.

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Science is super cool!!

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Just over 100 years ago there was a quite widespread belief that the study of Physics had nearly reached the end. Almost all questions settled.

Dear me...

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Thanos to appear soon...

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very quarky indeed

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This, with the first images of material on the edge of a black hole, is simply amazing. Two extremes. We've com a long away. Who knows how much more we'll understand in the next 100 years.

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