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Nature 429, 10-11 (6 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429010a

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Physics: The waiting game

Geoff Brumfiel1

  1. Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's Washington physical sciences correspondent.

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A few physicists have spent decades searching for the rarest events in the Universe — and seen nothing. But their enthusiasm for the hunt is undimmed. Geoff Brumfiel asks what keeps them going.

Blas Cabrera still remembers Valentine's Day 1982. Entering his lab on a Sunday afternoon the young physicist made a heart-stopping discovery.

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