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Underlying paper in Physical Review Letters

I know a few of those words

Yea. I’m not intelligent enough to understand your title, friend.

The Wikipedia article on nuclear drip lines was helpful in understanding why those isotopes were exotic and it sounds like the measurements extend the state of the art from neon to silicon. Interesting!

I think I am just barely getting there. Maybe someone can help us both out and let me know if I am correct.

It sounds to me like they designed a fancy new toy/tool/facility(?) that can measure very small stuff better than anything we had before. Now that they got around to comparing those measurements to our existing theories that matched up pretty well. I believe this means that our current theories about quantum physics might actually be partly correct.

Yes, they have a new toy! Specially designed for smashing up rare isotopes. I think the article probably does a better job explaining what's going on than my title.

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