Don’t Get Too Excited Yet About the LHC’s Hint of a New Particle
Earlier this week, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced they’d found tantalizing traces of a possible new fundamental particle — perhaps a heavier cousin of the Higgs boson, or the elusive graviton, a quantum carrier of the force of gravity. The evidence comes from two separate, but complementary, experiments, known as CMS and ATLAS.…
