If so, the CMS and MIT teams may well answer a raft of questions about subatomic physics while further justifying CERN's giant underground rings.

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When you consider quantum physics you recognize the fact that all particles (even the subatomic ones) have a split-personality, of sorts.

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Assuming there are no further glitches, the energy of the collisions will be cranked up over the next few months and the new subatomic goodies will start pouring out of the machine and into the pages of physics journals.

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Off the playing fields, Princeton professor Daniel Tsui Chye won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with two colleagues, for a breakthrough in understanding how subatomic particles behave.

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