• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The interesting part for me is not that they created oxygen 28 but that when created it behaved completely differently than they expected from their current theory. Stable vs emitting 4 neutrons to become oxygen 24.

    Any experiment that ends with “that is not what we expected” is a source of new inquiry.