Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more ...

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