Experimental Evidence for More Dimensions Reported

MAY 01, 1998

Physics Tomorrow: Essay Contest Winner

Gordon L. Kane

The worldview of physicists working on unification theories has been changing rapidly recently. That change culminated in March, at the 46th annual Recontres de Moriond conference in Les Arcs. France, with the announcement of some startling data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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