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More accurate measurements (ie bigger sample) of the effect shows that it probably is not real.
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2010/05/cdf-says-calm-down-everybody.html
Even 3 sigma statistics fail from time to time (0.25% to be exact), not necessarily through a fault of the experimenters.
When scientists say more data is needed, they usually mean it
I don’t understand how the particle can switch between matter and anti-matter. Does it have something to do with the quark’s charges actually changing? Also, I’m blown away that they can measure something that’s happening trillions of times per second. Whoa
As Feynman showed: a pair of B particles can oscillate between matter & and anti-matter by oscillating back & forth in the time dimension.
In other words: either ‘particle’ going backward and forward in time. The charges do not have to switch. Time-reversal makes them appear to so do.
This is allowed in QM, provided that it is balanced & brief.
Yeah I remember that from QED but can you elaborate a little more on what that actually means (forward and backward in time)? Would the particle behave just like anti-matter and annihilate on contact with matter?