Call off the guard dogs. No one — yet — has to worry about
researchers drastically tinkering with the standard model of particle physics,
the wildly successful theory that describes how elementary particles interact
and form the building blocks of matter.
BIG HOUSE, SMALL STUFF Pictured is a house-sized detector at the Brookhaven National Laboratory that documented a rare mode of decay of particles called kaons, constituents of matter.
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