Physicists Postulate Existance of New Particle

corngrower writes "University of Washington physicists postulate the existence of a new particle called the acceleron which links dark energy with the neutrino. The theory offers an explanation for the recent discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe."

Intel Outside!

[NanoGator]

"University of Washington physicists postulate the existence of a new particle called the acceleron which links dark energy with the neutrino."

Acceleron... Neutrino... and it represents a particle whose value cannot be scientifically measured today. How about Itanion?

okay everybody has to do this at last once...

[shaitand]

I for one welcome our new dark energy overlords!

So...

[shfted!]

Acceleron is to neutrino, as Celeron is to Centrino. Suddlenly, accelerons sound like old news.

Subatomic particles are like programming languages

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

There's a zillion of them, of which only about 4 are of any use to most of us...

An acceleron?

[Cecil]

I've got acceleron in my computer.

Woohoo, that was the worst pun ever! Someone shoot me.

Hmmm

[advocate_one]

observations don't match your theory???

postulate a new particle...

how about working on the existing theory so that it doesn't require yet another particle???

Re:I postulate the existence of...

[hdparm]

Surely, you could use some of these accelerons.

Re:When?

[jamesh]

It has been proposed that the sum of the intelligence of mankind is a constant. Lets just hope this isn't true, 'cos the population is increasing rapidly.

The force

[erik_norgaard]

This dark energy really is just the dark side of the force which tears apart our universe. We need some Jedis to look at the bright side!

I think Jedis are just really sensible beings, that is sensible to neurtrinos.

Writers from ST:Voyager

[wowbagger]

Does anybody else get the feeling that the writers from Star Dreck:Voyager have moved into the particle physics business?

This just reeks of the "Particle of the Week" writing that ST:V indulged in so frequently.

What next - the hypothesis that the universe will undergo a "Big Rip", but then the interaction of the accelerons and the whetions will reset the timeline and everything will be back to normal?