{"id":215333,"date":"2025-06-04T05:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/decades-long-experiment-finds-muon-still-behaving-unexpectedly"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:16:33","slug":"decades-long-experiment-finds-muon-still-behaving-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/decades-long-experiment-finds-muon-still-behaving-unexpectedly","title":{"rendered":"Decades-long experiment finds muon still behaving unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decades-long-experiment-finds-muon-still-behaving-unexpectedly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely\u2014but that\u2019s still good news for the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-12-chinese-detector-elusive-neutrinos-deep.html\">laws of physics<\/a> as we know them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis experiment is a huge feat in precision,\u201d said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of the collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious particles called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/muons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muons<\/a> are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a>, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the Standard Model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely\u2014but that\u2019s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. \u201cThis experiment is a huge feat in precision,\u201d said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}