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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisbaud" data-source="post: 8243200" data-attributes="member: 7030375">"If the results are true, the discovery represents a breakthrough in particle physics of a kind that hasn't been seen for 50 years, when the dominant theory to explain subatomic particles was first developed. The teeny-tiny wobble of the muon — created by the interaction of its intrinsic magnetic field, or magnetic moment, with an external magnetic field — could shake the very foundations of science.[...]However, a rival calculation made by a separate group and published Wednesday (April 7) in the journal <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1590019&xcust=livescience_ca_4883572419680944000&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-021-03418-1&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fmuon-wobble-could-break-physics.html" target="_blank">Nature</a> could rob the wobble of its significance. According to this team's calculations, which give a much larger value to the most uncertain term in the equation that predicts the muon's rocking motion, the experimental results are totally in line with predictions. Twenty years of particle chasing could have all been for nothing."Yea, considering the conclusion of the article, the title may be a bit to sensational!</blockquote>