Ghost in the Machine: Atom Smasher's 'New Particle' Was Illusion

In December 2015, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's largest particle accelerator — thought they may have seen a hint of a brand-new particle, and with it, a window into physics beyond what scientists know now. Yet despite the negative result, the fact that there is nothing there shows that reigning theories of particle physics are working remarkably well, experts said. "The bad news is [the measurements] don't show anything," said theoretical physicist Matt