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I love how the bleeding edge of physics sounds so much like shitty improvised sci-fi. We smashed lead together so hard that it made hyperhelium. It's hyper because it has at least one strangeness.
Exactly what this actually means is beyond my level of physics knowledge. What I can understand is that they managed to make stuff that normally belongs in the heart of a neutron star and which disappears in less time than it takes for light itself to travel the length of my arm, except actually it's the goddamn antimatter version of that, and they were able to discern multiple different types of it at once. That's wild
The article doesn't mention neutron stars. Those exotic particles need very high energies like shortly after the big bang.
It doesn't, but hyperons are theorised to exist more stably in neutron stars