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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws

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The Higgs Boson Crisis

Physicists have been in a textbook cunian crisis. The community despaired when the large hadron caleider still hadn't conjured up any of the new elementary particles that theorists had been expecting for decades. Isabel garcia: "You could feel the pessimism i think, especially in some of the perhaps more senior members of the community"

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