Mesons Behaving Badly

Here’s one for all of you particle physics wonks. It would appear that the decay of B mesons proceeds a way that is very different to that predicted by the Standard Model of quantum mechanics. The explanation is way beyond my 30-year-old understanding of particle physics, but I do know enough about science to know that when experimental results differ wildly from theoretical predictions interesting things are likely to happen.

(Love the penguin diagram too.)