Hey, remember that fuss about neutrinos moving faster than light? Yeah, that’s a big deal. Want to hear something else that’s a big deal that you may have missed? They may have to completely rewrite particle physics.
Why, precisely? The Large Hadron Collider is showing us that matter produced by the collisions are acting substantially different from anti-matter, namely committing charge-parity violations at .08 percent. That doesn’t fit into the current Standard Model, so, if the results hold up, we could be seeing some tasty new physics fairly soon.
Still, don’t start taunting your high school science teacher just yet: they’re only about 85% sure this is happening, and they’re going to have to repeat the experiment a few more times before they start editing the basic laws of the universe.
[ via the physicist at Space.com ]