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Weighty questions

In an unprecedented feat of computation, particle theorists made the most precise prediction yet of the mass of the ‘charm–bottom’ particle. Days later, experimentalists dramatically confirmed that prediction.

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Figure 1: Gregarious quarks.
Figure 2: Perfect harmony.

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