Muon g-2 Anomaly That Broke Physics Finally Clarified in a New Study

Muons making it to detectors on the Earth's surface from high in the atmosphere, after being created by cosmic rays, proves that they actually experience time dilation. They shouldn't live nearly long enough to make it down, but because they are moving at nearly the speed of light, they last 70x longer. A pretty amazing confirmation of Special Relativity. :)

But still, it should have been checked. This is how science works,

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Basically, this muon discrepancy showed up because we were pushed to the limits of both the mathematical complexity of our models, and the sensitivity of our detectors (at least at Fermilab). All these Fermilab runs and recalculations were probably the biggest calibration effort ever undertaken by mankind. So now that we have such a solid model for these muons, this sets us up to use them to test other particles with improved accuracy and precision. Hopefully this sets us up for discoveries in the future.

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On my A-Level EDUQAS physics paper today, there was a question on the discrepancy of the magnetic moment of a muon, and how physicists could go about proceeding with the findings! That's awesome!