Scientists break fundamental law of nature

American scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) managed to do an experiment that seems to have broken the universal law of parity in an experiment where gold nuclei were smashed together at fractions below speed of light, showing how up- and down- quarks seem to "understand" up and down despite it being thought impossible....

Sandweiss and the team — which includes Yale physics research scientists Evan Finch, Alexei Chikanian and Richard Majka — found that quarks of a like sign moved together: Up quarks moved along the magnetic field lines, while down quarks traveled against them. That the quarks could tell the difference in directions suggested to the researchers that symmetry had been broken.

The results were so unexpected that Sandweiss and his colleagues waited more than a year to publish them, spending that time searching for an alternative explanation. The physicist is still quick to point out that the effect only suggests parity violation — it doesn't prove it — but the STAR collaboration has decided to open up the research to scrutiny by other physicists.

"I think it's a real effect, but we'll know more in the upcoming years," Sandweiss says.

Source: opa.yale.edu...

So what does that mean? Seriously? Anyone know? I think somone posted this yesterday on ATS. Better do a quick search.

it means i need a degree in astro-physics ahahaha

I dont think theres anything to understand. From the sound of the article, the scientists barley know whats going on.

double post

sad day for the edit button

[edit on 21-3-2010 by SPACEYstranger]

There is already a thread about this here;

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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That's true most of the time, only they don't realise it.

2nd.

Oh, if it has already been posted I didn't know it. Seems like ATS should do some serious upgrades to their terrible search function. I'm normally better off using google when searching for topics here.

As for what the research results may mean for the future of physics, I honestly have no idea, other than at subatomic level, buildingblocks of sub-atomic particles seem to defy any theory and even nature's laws in this experiment. I'm not a physicist, and my knowledge of quarks and such is limited to their names and how they are what protons and neutrons etc are made up from. Worth looking into I guess....

It means that your DNA knows the deferents between your head and your A$$.

That the quarks could tell the difference in directions.

This shows DNA as a hole is highly intelligent, as is all other forms of matter in the universe. Just because it doesn't have a brain does not mean it's not aware of it's own existence.
All matter in this universe is alive.

Yes this is a little forward thinking, but in a time, a short time this will be proven to be so.

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Quarks do not have DNA in them.

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