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pixl97today at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean it's easy to say it's fake, but to counter this, why can a particle that only interacts with gravity not exist?

The neutrino is a good example of a particle that almost doesn't exist. They are produced in solar reactions in spectacular amounts. Trillions of them are flitting through you right now as if you don't exist. You'd need a light year block of lead to ensure you could stop one. Mind-boggling amounts of them have to pass through our detectors to see even a single interaction.

Simply put, the particle physics does not have to behave nice so you can sleep well at night.


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dnauticstoday at 5:51 PM

I mean sure nature has no obligation to not have a unfalsifable particle, but you wind up in weird places, like, there exists a distribution of dark matter that explains the poltergeist that knocked over your coffee cup last week.

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