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CERN finds another piece of the physics puzzle in 3 particles

The announcement confirmed another important element of the prevailing theory for how the universe began.

Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider (AN/J. Heilprin)

GENEVA (AN) — Physicists working at the world's biggest atom smasher detected the simultaneous production of three fundamental particles, a rare process that plays a key role in radioactivity and the Sun's thermonuclear process.

The announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, at a conference in Italy confirmed another important element of the prevailing theory for how the universe began and how its most elemental pieces fit together.

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