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Dennis Overbye: Reporting the Universe

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The Big Machine Gets to Chicago

This big machine finally gets to chicago, and what do they do with it? They send a new beam of muons through it, on better meons in a firme lab. They produce the best muons you can produce. So now, in physics, there are always discrepancies between experiment and prediction. And usually if you do them enough times, the discrepancies go away. There's always just the chance that it's a fluke.

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