Friday, June 18, 2004





Experiment finds puzzling new particle

"Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will announce on Friday, June 18 the observation of an unexpected new member of a family of subatomic particles called 'heavy-light' mesons. The new meson, a combination of a strange quark and a charm antiquark, is the heaviest ever observed in this family, and it behaves in surprising ways -- it apparently breaks the rules on decaying into other particles."

I love it when physics doesn't play by the rules.

Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say





"Our solar system may have had a fifth terrestrial planet, one that was swallowed up by the Sun. But before it was destroyed, the now missing-in-action world made a mess of things."

And we're supposed to accept that the astronomers in this article have never heard of Tom Van Flandern's Exploded Planet Hypothesis?

(Thanks to the ever-vigilant Bill Dash for the heads-up.)

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