Real life Minovsky Particle?

[Swindle1984]

I keep seeing mentions in articles about UC Gundam that there is a real-life experimental particle sharing some of the properties of the Minovsky Particle. No sources are ever cited, and I've completely failed to find anything about it via google.

What are they talking about? Or is this just something someone wrote in one article (making it up or failing to understand something) and everyone else just parrots it without thinking about it?

[Simon_Jester]

It's bullshit. Trust me on this one.

Minovsky Particles are some kind of magic handwave to justify making everything in the setting work so as to justify the use of Gundams, right?

It's a pretty fair bet they aren't real. If you could name the particle, though, that would help.

[Justice]

They absolutely aren't real. They are sort of the definition of something which sounds scientific so it looks like they are still grounded. I think TV Tropes has a good summary of this.

[lordofchange13]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... kyParticle A well defined form of Unobtainium,that doesn't just act as magic.