Confronting the Universe: 3
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Is dark matter real? The morning after CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs particle, three young physicists sit down with Nobel prizewinners George Smoot and Martinus Veltman. Veltman is surprisingly cynical about the discovery. Moreover, he contends that there is no such thing as dark matter.
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