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...didn't work out that way. At a meeting in Italy last week, Griest's boss, Bernard Sadoulet, announced that the team had discovered what appeared to be a tiny star or a huge planet, lurking out beyond the visible stars of the Milky Way. It may be just one of trillions of similar objects, whose combined mass far outweighs all the known stars. At the same time, a French group doing its own search disclosed that it had found two more of the dark bodies, making it unlikely that either team had made a mistake. If the discoveries...
...team unmercifully, Taubes writes, then unofficially spread the news of a discovery before performing the sort of rigorous analysis that would confirm it. This maneuver would effectively pre-empt any claim by the UA2 group, which was proceeding with a more careful proof before going public. Says Physicist Bernard Sadoulet, a member of the UA1 team: "It was clear that we were working on something so central to particle physics that if we got it, our leader would get the Nobel Prize...
...short, Taubes implies, Rubbia is unethical and an opportunist. But does that simply reflect the pressures of high-energy physics? Says Sadoulet: "In this field, unfortunately, only people who are s.o.b.s are making an impact, because it's such a competitive field. But I am not one to throw stones at Rubbia. We fought a lot, but what's important is that a competent team made an important discovery." Taubes does not disagree. "Rubbia is a very smart man," he told TIME. "In a field in which the ability to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and win over governments...
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