To Observe the Muon Is to Experience Hints of Immortality

Attempting to model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting

Aug 10, 2023

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New measurements of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete. — NYT, Aug. 10

illustration with organic multicolor shapes with a square around them — ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATE DEHLER

ALL PEOPLE WANT to enact a paradigm shift, don't they? Even if it's not mRNA, or Lego, we want at least, on our one chance on Earth, to make a meme happen.

So imagine the excitement …

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