7mo ago

Physics Said These Quantum Particles Couldn't Exist. Now, Math Has Proven They Can

www.iflscience.com

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You can prove a lot of things with math. Doesn't mean they're real.
- “And math’s just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality ”
  Source: xkcd, every major’s terrible, square 2
- Fair point. And another poster voiced his frustration with the headline. And I guess I am not smart enough to realize that this was a poor article.
  I'm not being smarmy, I honestly didn't realize it was a bad science article.
  
  As a rule of thumb, you can usually assume anything from iflscience is trash tier.
- Here's a better media coverage of the same paper https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00030-5
  
  In statistics and with arbitrarily questionable assumptions that might be true, but there's other math.
- When you predict a new phenomenon from a current model, either you've opened the door to the discovery of this new phenomenon or you've demonstrated a shortcoming in the model. Both are useful to science.
Parastatistics, if you have the required background and are looking for info.
The new thing is just that the ones described are guaranteed non-equivalent to normal fermions or bosons.
Oh no. We've used math to represent and model the things we've observed. Don't go claiming you've observed things just because your math works.
Actually run your darn experiments
Math proves magnetic monopoles can exist. But no evidence and its very possible that it does not exist physically
- there fixed your idiotic headline
  Well, it wasn't my headline. Many communities don't allow changing an article's headline from what's posted. So I just default to using the articles headline.
  I'm unsure what you mean by this being my "only warning."
  Are you a mod or admin here and are saying that I've stumbled into breaking a rule, and that I have no more chances. Please clarify so I can adapt accordlingly.
  Thanks!

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