China: Scientists Prove 87-Year-Old Soviet Quantum Mechanics Prediction – Made By Arkady Migdal (Аркадий Мигдал) [1911-1991]! (17.1.2026)

Blogger’s Note: The US-led West presented the USSR as “unnatural” and its science “flawed” – because it was directed by the Communist Party. This anti-intellectual position was held-up in the face of endless Soviet scientific achievements, advancements, and progressions, etc. This Scientific Revolution began with Czarist Russia’s intellectuals who were writing very good science fiction books in the 1880s – and perhaps earlier. Lenin advocated the “freeing” of the human-mind from the shackles of bourgeois persecution and capitalist oppression, and injustice. The purpose of this approach was to a) to release, and b) to harness – the full creative capacity of the human-mind – and it worked (a process still unfolding in China). Lenin stated that every man, woman, and child was a “scientist” and that they should assist the Soviet State by sitting in their kitchens during their free-time and allow their conscious capacity to “think-through” the problems and limitations of the age they happen to physically and psychologically inhabit. Although it seems that the way things are is “set” and “static” – history informs that this is far from the case. The limitation of bourgeois science is that most of its inherent energy must be used to maintain the capitalist system and prevent any developments in understanding that would “question” the efficiency of efficacy of this system. This means that bourgeois science is exclusionary and elitist and exists only to support the capitalists in the exploitation of the masses (arms production is a major component of this oppression). Bourgeois Universities are persecuted by the State if they permit any progressive advancement that draws doubt down upon the capitalist system. Part of this process is the permanent exclusion of the lumpen proletariat from the process and mechanism of science. In the 1920s, a Soviet scientist speculated that “life” chemically formed on Earth due to millions of years of very bad and violent weather conditions (atoms form elements and then molecules, etc – forming the physical “stuff” of existence – a process which must logically lead to “life”) – this theoretical position was practically proven by US scientists in 1959. This effectively (scientifically) proved that the “stuff” of life (and by inference life itself) is not a divine-construct that suddenly appears in a pristine state – initiated by the will of a divine entity. The Human-mind must be externally and internally “freed” so that its full creative capacity can be realised. Not every thought is progressive – but thinking must be encouraged to set this sieving process in motion. ACW (17.1.2026)

2026-01-16 Ecns.cn Editor：Mo Honge

(ECNS) – Chinese scientists have directly observed the Migdal effect for the first time in experiments involving collisions between neutrons and atomic nuclei, confirming a quantum mechanics prediction made nearly nine decades ago.

A joint research team led by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) achieved the breakthrough using their own specialized gas detectors and microchips.

The discovery not only verifies an 87-year- old theoretical prediction in quantum mechanics, but also provides key experimental support for the search for lighter dark matter particles in the universe. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Thursday. 

The Migdal effect was proposed in 1939 by Soviet physicist Arkady Migdal. It describes the quantum phenomenon for when particles strike atomic nuclei, where part of the energy may then be transferred to electrons outside the nucleus, potentially knocking them free from the atom’s binding. This process can convert otherwise undetectable weak signals into measurable electronic ones, which offers a promising method for detecting light dark matter. 

The Migdal effect is considered a key theoretical pathway for lowering energy thresholds in light dark matter detection,” said Zheng Yangheng, a professor at UCAS and corresponding author of the study. “However, for more than 80 years, the effect had never been directly confirmed in experiments involving neutral particle collisions, raising questions about dark matter experiments that rely on this mechanism.”

Zheng said the new findings resolve a long-standing threshold bottleneck in light dark matter detection. Future international dark matter search experiments could harness the Migdal effect to improve signal identification accuracy and even allow experiments to be more sensitive to more possible kinds of dark matter than before, especially ones that were previously too hard to detect.