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		k__ on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic p... I think the process is: Scientists make a theory. The theory predicts a bunch of particles. Scientists build LHC to check if the theory is right. LHC finds the predicted particles. The theory was right.

nxpnsv on July 5, 2022 [–]

Except it is not a single theory, but whole families of theories.

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