- 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.
If there are indeed electrons impervious to spectroscopic analysis, and therefore to interaction with em radiation, then our model of physics is totally fucked (or, i suppose, very very incomplete).