As the old physics wisdom goes, to answer big questions, build big machines. To that idea, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has really delivered on all fronts in its last 16 years of operations. As humanity’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator, the LHC had a hand in more than a few Nobel-winning discoveries, including the confirmation of the Higgs boson. It’s been a lab for physicists around the world to explore nature’s most extreme regimes—a pursuit that has sometimes led to odd findings bordering on modern alchemy.
But things weren’t all perfect. Many expected that a system as huge and capable as the LHC could discover physics…
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