Researchers have just found evidence of “dark electrons”—electrons you can’t see using spectroscopy—in solid materials.
By analyzing the electrons in palladium diselenide, the team was able to find states that functionally cancel each other out, blocking the electrons in those “dark states” from view.
The scientists believe this behavior is likely to be found across many other substances as well, and could help explain why some superconductors behave in unexpected ways.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Sometimes I wonder how much of our universe is sitting on the surface of a metaphorical lake; and the things we see are just the bits that poke up above the water. That there's an entirely separate world pressing up against ours, and normally they don't interact; except sometimes they do, leading to effects which (to my knowledge) seem to have no cause, such as dark matter, dark energy, quantum unpredictablility and so forth.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm a lot more worried that we're actually just the little color patterns that float around the outside of a soap bubble. That we're just the error rate in a dynamic creation/annihilation event that happens everywhere.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

This is perfectly possible. But why worry about it? It wouldn't make things less fun!

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