One of the rules of mathematics and physics, as I - a complete non-mathematician - read often in science books, is that when infinity is introduced into a scientific equation it no longer makes sense.

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However, scientists are already discussing the other facilities that will be needed to complete the search for the new physics that must exist beyond the current Standard Model of particles and their interactions.

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