40 years for a 1-in-10-billion event. That is insane patience. What I love about this is it shows how science actually works - not one eureka moment, but decades of people building better detectors just to catch one tiny decay that shouldn't even happen that often. If this points to particles beyond the Standard Model, this could be one of those papers we look back on in 10 years as the starting point.
40 years for a 1-in-10-billion event. That is insane patience.
What I love about this is it shows how science actually works - not one eureka moment, but decades of people building better detectors just to catch one tiny decay that shouldn't even happen that often.
If this points to particles beyond the Standard Model, this could be one of those papers we look back on in 10 years as the starting point.