<story><title>A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-experiment-casts-doubt-on-the-leading-theory-of-the-nucleus-20230612/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxy</author><text>The fundamental theories we have is Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics.&lt;p&gt;This new experiment tells you that &amp;quot;modern nuclear forces, including those derived within chiral effective field theory&amp;quot; break down and cannot be used to describe what they observed. Here is the arxiv: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2112.10582&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;2112.10582&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It just tells you that their effective theory is no longer effective in these circumstances. Unless you actually observe something contradicts QED+QCD calculations, nothing fundamental is wrong.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t believe they pick such a clickbaity title for a serious publication and let quanta magazine publish an even more clickbaity article about it. Well, I guess they need more funding.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] PS. The science is sound and suggests that nuclear physicists must refine their theories to match observations. This also encourages those working on QED+QCD, as increased computational power may enable precise form factor calculations for comparison with experiments.</text></comment>
<story><title>A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-experiment-casts-doubt-on-the-leading-theory-of-the-nucleus-20230612/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>This is great news, if it holds up. There hasn&amp;#x27;t been a lot of remarkable advancement in physics since the Standard Model.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Another topic that comes up is simplicity. According to Feynman, nature is usually much simpler than our thoughts. Therefore, when trying to explain phenomena, we tend to overcomplicate things. Often, in the end, reality can be explained by much simpler terms. We just need to look at it from another point of view.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cassandradispatch.org&amp;#x2F;richard-feynman-on-looking-at-the-world-from-another-point-of-view&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cassandradispatch.org&amp;#x2F;richard-feynman-on-looking-at-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>