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  • Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal

    Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal

    Inside a locked cabinet, an envelope held a number that was poised to rock the physics community, regardless of its contents. The value, a clock measurement deliberately hidden to keep physicists’ data analysis unbiased, would be used in a calculation that could either bring one of particle physics’ foremost mysteries to an end — or…