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Okay, an ELI5. I think this is accurate, but there are a couple of pieces that might be beyond my understanding - please correct if I’m misleading.

When we fly muons and electrons in a circle at really high speeds using magnets we get to observe the quantum “soup” - all the little things that happen too fast for us to normally see.

This is because electrons and muons are kind of like bar magnets. When we spin them around a circle using powerful magnets we can measure how quickly the bar turns to adjust to the magnetic field.

We did this experiment with the electron back in the day, and the measured value didn’t match the prediction from the maths.

Well, we realized the reason for this is because the electron’s magnet doesn’t actually stay the same the entire time, for very short periods it changes into a “different vegetable in the quantum soup” that is not magnetic. interacts with the other "vegetables in the quantum soup" in a way that changes the strength of the electron’s magnet. When we did all the maths for the different “vegetables” it could possibly turn in to interact with we got the same result as experiments. How cool is that?

So we did the same thing to the muon, and when we had taken the muon and all the known vegetables from the soup, we’re still left with something behind. An unknown vegetable!

If this experimental difference proves to be true, it means there is a standard model particle that we have neither detected nor theorized before, and that’s really exciting.

Edited to try and incorporate the correction below.

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I don’t quite understand your question, time doesn’t really have a place in the standard model.

But even if I am misunderstanding, I’m pretty sure the researchers understand its interaction and that is not part of the answer.

All the vegetables in the pot are under the same conditions when we take measurements in experiments like these, I think. Hard to say really what a virtual particle/antiparticle pair are doing when they literally do every possible thing they can do.

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It’s a whole new particle that we have neither theory for nor have detected in our experiments.

And further to that, it’s a boson, which means it is a force carrier, so potentially a whole new force of nature has been discovered to go along with the 4 we already know.

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She, and the answer to your question is in the paper, and she couldn't really answer it the way you worded it.

The West uses more land currently than USDA guidelines because we eat too much meat. Is this Fortunate?

The East uses less land currently than USDA guidelines - I'm assuming because they're not eating a healthy diet. Is that Fortunate?

So she responded that the goal was to feed everyone healthily, while keeping the planet healthy.

You asked a snarky, self-evident question and got a positive, scientific response, and then got salty about it.