Japanese Scientists may have discovered new subatomic partic

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-07-01 06:38pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/science/01PART.html

slamming high-energy particles of light into carbon atoms, physicists have unexpectedly produced a new type of subatomic particle.

Protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atoms, are made of smaller particles known as quarks, which come in six varieties. A proton, for example, consists of three quarks — two so-called up quarks and one down quark. Physicists know of slews of particles containing two or three quarks.

Now they believe they know of a particle containing five quarks that perhaps could have been common in the very early universe. (No one has yet conclusively found particles with four or six or more quarks.)

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-01 06:58pm

*Gets on knees and prays*

It's a graviton...it's a graviton...it's a graviton...

Traceroute · Post by **Traceroute** » 2003-07-01 08:00pm

Maybe it's the Higgs boson ... any chance there was a note on the energy of the impact? (IIRC, the Higgs boson was expected to appear in collisions in the TJ range.)

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-01 08:06pm

May we be blessed by the Holy Higgs' field and the venerable Radiation of the Hawking
-Chanters behind-
*The Hawking, The Hawking, The Hawking

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-07-01 08:06pm

Isn't that the thing that lex said would blow up the world. If it is...Cool.

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2003-07-01 08:09pm

According to GOOGLE, the HB is the particle thought to endow matter with mass.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-01 08:15pm

Maybe if I find a way to get rid of HBs I can make myself thinner!
I'll make millions
Bwahahahahahahaha
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-01 08:19pm

It can neither be the graviton nor the higgs boson, both need to be fundemental particles/ the graviton would have to be a boson because its a force carrier, and higgs boson IS a boson. Compound particles like protons and neutrons are hadrons and fermions. Particles like electrons are called leptons, and do not experience the strong force. Fermions feel the strong force. Electrons are special tho, theyre both fermions and leptons, because fermions have 1/2 spin, and leptions have odd-multiples-of-1/2 spin. Bosons have zero or integral spin.