The ghost in the machine is real: How physicists finally tracked down the hidden force disrupting CERN’s most powerful accelerator |
Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running since the 1970s, physicists have been chasing something they could not see, could not measure, and could not fully explain. It showed up only in the results: particles straying from their paths, beams degrading unexpectedly, experiments falling […]
