Last week, physicists at a giant particle-collider in Europe began to search for a subatomic entity so fundamental, they claim it creates mass.

上周，物理学家们聚集欧洲，用一台巨大的强子对撞机开始了寻找亚原子微粒的历程，他们声称这是质量的起源。

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Teams using the giant Cern particle accelerator deep under the Swiss-French border say they've succeeded in storing anti-hydrogen atoms.

使用瑞士和法国边境地下Cern一台巨大的粒子加速器的研究团队称，他们成功地俘获反氢原子。

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One of the intriguing discoveries of 2011 came the giant particle accelerator in Switzerland.

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Astronomers said they think that some matter escapes black holes through particle jets shooting from the poles of giant collapsed stars.

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Because nobody knows what the mass of a Higgs boson might be, the particle must be hunted indirectly, typically in giant machines that propel particles to near-light speed, then smash them together and generate an array of other subatomic particles.

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