Evidence of Mystery
Particles Stirring
Excitement and Doubt
New York Times
By JAMES GLANZ
team of physicists based at the
University of Rome has generated both
intense excitement and profound skepticism
among scientists around the world by
presenting evidence that they may have
detected a heavy particle that could solve a
70-year-old mystery in astronomy and lead
to a conceptual breakthrough in physics.
The presumed particles would weigh at least
50 times as much as a proton and would
almost alw
