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CERN Confirms Ultra-Rare Particle Transformation, Hints at New Physics (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 3 months ago

"Ultra-rare" means

The number of kaon to pion and neutrino/antineutrino decays the team observed is higher than the 8.4 per 100 billion predicted by the Standard Model, but it's still within the uncertainty parameters.