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In a file picture taken on March 22, 2007 a woman walks close to the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS), at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator.
Friday, Sep. 23, 2011

Open quoteIf it is true, then we truly haven't understood anything about anything.Close quote

  • ALVARO DE RUJULA,
  • a theorist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, on a report that physicists plan to announce that they have detected subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light
Photo: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images | Source: New York Times