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A bet about a cherished theory of physics may …
A bet about a cherished theory of physics may soon pay out
IN 1994, on a warm summer’s evening in Erice, in Sicily, in the midst of a pleasantly well-lubricated dinner, two physicists made a wager on the laws of nature. The bet between Kenneth Lane and David Gross concerned supersymmetry, or “Susy” for short, a theory which stipulates that all known fundamental particles have heavier, supersymmetric counterparts called sparticles. When the bet was laid, no sparticles had been spotted. Yet plans for a powerful particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were being drawn up. Dr Lane proposed that if the new machine found evidence for the theory, he would buy the table dinner at Girardet’s, an expensive restaurant in Switzerland considered .
很可惜,《The Economist》被屏蔽,打不开。
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