Physicists agree that experiments at the Brookhaven atom collider have created a new form of matter. But theorists and experimentalists are still arguing about what to call it. Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
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Brumfiel, G. What's in a name?. Nature 430, 498–499 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/430498a
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