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‘What Monsters Might Be Lurking There?’: Scientists Say Particle May Overturn Laws Of Physics

Hank Berrien
‘What Monsters Might Be Lurking There?’: Scientists Say Particle May Overturn Laws Of Physics
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After twenty years, confirmation of research done in 2001 has been found that a tiny subatomic particle may be defying the best theory scientists have of how physics work, titled the Standard Model.

At the Department of Energy’s Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, scientists sent a beam of muons into a huge 50-foot-wide storage ring controlled by superconducting magnets. Muons are roughly 200 times bigger than electrons and occur when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere.

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