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A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

Brajeshwar

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  • lorenzohess
    > After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball, which is made entirely of force-carrying particles. > ... The discovery of glueballs would provide direct evidence that gluons can interact with themselves, researchers say. This is a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics
  • chasil
  • hdivider
    Isn't it significant in some sense that this was discovered in China first, and not the US?In the sense of: we didn't know splitting the atom would change warfare forever, back when Einstein and others published on it. We don't know if there are discoveries of similar impact lying in wait somewhere. If China gets to such a discovery first, we are in Sputnik territory, to say the least.
  • cat-whisperer
    are we going to have force-fields now?
  • Hobadee
    And here I am, thinking I discovered "glueballs" in elementary school when we were given rubber cement to use.