New Discovery; New Form of Matter: The Tetraquark

Recent science have becoming boring, if there will discoveries then it will be disease viruses. It occured to me that there is nothing left for our generation to discover as in pure science after those great scientific discoveries by those great scientist. Theories in physics, chemistry, biology, etc were all in the last ceuntrys, so I thought what is left for scientist now is improvement in theories and technology but have been proof wrong.

The recent identification of a long-theorized particle provides strong evidence of a new form of matter. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider in the world, verified the existence of a particle called Z(4430) last week, according to New Scientist. Previously, physicists had reasoned that the particle could exist but had yet to observe it.

Discovery of any new particle is an important step for scientists, but Z(4430) is viewed with particular importance — it is evidence of a new type of matter called a tetraquark.

Quarks are among the most basic building blocks of matter. Combinations of different types of quarks produce protons and neutrons. Although quarks typically bind together in groups of two or three, scientists had theorized that four quarks could be combined to form a different type of matter: the tetraquark.

source: Mashable

Quarks are subatomic particles that are the fundamental building blocks of matter. They are known to exist either in groups of two, forming short-lived mesons, or in threes, forming the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei. Researchers have suspected for decades that quarks might also bind together in quartets, forming tetraquarks, but they have not been able to do the complicated quantum calculations necessary to test the idea.

 

"Our computers aren't yet big enough to solve the theory from first principles," says Thomas Cohen at the University of Maryland in College Park. That means no one knows if the laws of physics should allow matter to clump together to form the still hypothetical tetraquark. But the latest sighting at the LHC means we are closer than ever to finding out.

"The main argument about Z(4430) was, does it exist or not?" says Tomasz Skwarnicki at Syracuse University in New York, who is a member of the team that carried out the latest work. "We came and said Z(4430) is real."

 

source: New Scientist (read more at:http://www.newscientist.com

From this I can say science have not become boring as  thought, but all the same lets hope for a better future. The rest is yours to add.