This is either new physics or some weird systematic error

[John Clark]

In the February 11, 2025 issue of the journal physical review letters there is a report that the nucleus of the isotopes of the element Ytterbium are deformed in a way that the standard model of particle physics cannot explain and might be evidence for the existence of a new Boson, it might even be with Dark Matter is. This anomaly had been reported before about five years ago but back then the statistical significance was only 3 sigma and you need 5 to declare a discovery, in this new experiment done with vastly increased precision they got an incredible 23 sigma. If the experimenters made a systematic error it must've been a huge blunder, you'd think if it was an error somebody would've found something that big by now, but nobody has. Could it really be true? 

Probing New Bosons and Nuclear Structure with Ytterbium Isotope Shifts

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[Lawrence Crowell]

There can be a frustration, where a state is not stable, but selection mechanisms make a standard transition possible. The transition might then require energy to become some virtual or off-shell particle particle that decays.

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[Cosmin Visan]

Bosons! Posons! Mosons!