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[drucken]

Thanks for this. It is a lot more informative and accurate than the Extremetech article while remaining greatly more accessible than the original Nature journal paper.

In particular, the fractional quantum states/excitations aspect was completely missing in the Extremetech article.

[narag → drucken]

More informative indeed, but still with the unexplained "There is no theory that describes everything that we’re seeing." What are they seeing that no theory describes?

[stephengillie → narag]

I think there's just a lot of unknowns about quark behavior. No theories because of a lack of information.

[samstave → stephengillie]

So, mostly a "Well... that's interesting..." then? (Albeit a bit more of an informed confusion?)