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Published online 27 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011129-7

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Neutrinos feel the force

The orthodox worldview of fundamental physics is challenged by new experiments.

If big cracks start with little flaws, then physicists have reason to feel nervous. A tiny discrepancy between theory and experiment identified in measurements of two ghostly particles may reveal hitherto unsuspected particles or forces in fundamental physics.

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