50 years ago, physics underwent a major revolution

A surprising new particleScience News, November 23, 1974

To add to the present ferment and confusion in particle physics, nature now presents the oddest new particle to turn up in many years…. Theorists are at a loss for the moment about what to do with it…. The new particle is the heaviest yet found … and its lifetime of 10-18 seconds … is long for a particle of that mass. There must be some unheard of kind of structure to keep the particle together for so long.

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