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Scientists Found Dark Electrons: a Secret Quantum State Hidden in Solid Matter (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Researchers have just found evidence of “dark electrons”—electrons you can’t see using spectroscopy—in solid materials.
By analyzing the electrons in palladium diselenide, the team was able to find states that functionally cancel each other out, blocking the electrons in those “dark states” from view.
The scientists believe this behavior is likely to be found across many other substances as well, and could help explain why some superconductors behave in unexpected ways.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm a lot more worried that we're actually just the little color patterns that float around the outside of a soap bubble. That we're just the error rate in a dynamic creation/annihilation event that happens everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Well if we are, there isn't a thing anyone could ever do about it, so.... shrug

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is perfectly possible. But why worry about it? It wouldn't make things less fun!