Word: boson
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...which split into different forms after the birth of the universe. Some physicists had proposed that electromagnetism and the weak force, for example, might be combined, but their complex theory required the existence of three extremely heavy particles to complete the profile of the weak force: the positive W boson, negative W boson and Z boson. Rubbia decided to chase them down...
Rebuilding the accelerator took five years and $100 million. The particles had to be confined to their separate tracks until the critical moment when enough antiprotons were created to make collisions likely. Sensitive detectors had to be devised that could spot a single boson. (In a typical run, the scientists figured that they would get just one boson in a billion collisions. It would also be extremely shortlived, vanishing in less than a billionth of a billionth of a second.) When the CERN machine went back on line last fall, reaching energies of more than 540 billion electron volts, Rubbia...
...Celtics led, 101-98, with only 1:06 to play after Nate Archilbald made one out of two free throws. But Boson was unable to recover from Johnson's connection when M L Carr missed a last second desperation jumper...
...Baltimore's recently rejuvenated Inner Harbor--that city's version of Faneuil Hall--sits an outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...