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The Standard Model has been the consensus theory in physics for roughly forty years. It tells us that the visible world is made of a small set of fundamental particles, and it tells us how those particles work and interact. If the hints in the CMS and ATLAS data are vindicated—and that’s a big “if”—then particle physics would enter a new era. Our fundamental theory of the natural world would need to change, and no one knows quite how. This chance, however slight, has driven the extraordinary response among physicists to the announcement of the ATLAS and CMS results. Everyone wants to be part of what would be the biggest news in our field—perhaps the biggest scientific news—in nearly a half century.
So what is this Standard Model? What exactly are these experiments? And what did they see that got so many physicists so worked up?
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