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New physics at the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists are excited, but it's too soon to be sure

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par Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University

Last week, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland announced they might have discovered a brand new force of nature. Or, to be precise, they unveiled “new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of a violation of the Standard Model of particle physics”.

What does that mean? And why are they making such a big deal of it, while at the same time stopping short of claiming…

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