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- The new Majorana particle showed up inside a superconductor, a material in which the free movement of electrons allows electricity to flow without resistance.
And to quote one of the comments
- yin and yang all in one handy package.
am_Unition · 3758 days ago · link ·
Does no one understand that this is a quasiparticle? Couldn't find any mention of this in any article.
briandmyers · 3759 days ago · link ·
Ordinary photons are their own anti-particles as well; I'm pretty sure they are not the only ones like that known. It's odd to me that they did not mention this in the article.
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BLOB_CASTLE · 3760 days ago · link ·
I like to think that science is moving toward a more unified worldview and this discovery, I believe, is an example of such.