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self-absorbed тАФ тАЬ

тАЬBut you were in love with him.тАЭ Her focus abruptly returned. тАЬAs I
said, IтАЩve seen the reports,тАЭ he added, almost apologetically. тАЬIt was in the
interviews.тАЭ

She shrugged. тАЬI was at one time, yes. I suppose it was common
knowledge. Physicists gossip like anyone else.тАЭ

тАЬAnd was the love reciprocated?тАЭ He could see the hurt ripple across
her fea-tures, and he leaned forward. тАЬMademoiselle Parkes, I am truly
sorry for what I realize must seem like an outrageous intrusion into your
personal life, but I beg you to try to understand my position. Giorgio Parino
was perhaps the worldтАЩs greatest experimental physicist. His
disappearance under the conditions of the experimentтАФтАЭ

тАЬSome of us would not call it a disappearance.тАЭ

He nodded stiffly. He was not quite ready for semantic scientific
nitpicking. тАЬNevertheless, the pressure from the authorities and the public
and the press for a complete explanation тАФ тАЬ

тАЬFuck the authorities!тАЭ said Elizabeth. тАЬAnd the public. And the press.
AndтАФтАЭ

тАЬAnd the police. Of course,тАЭ filled in Lagrange, grinning.

She softened, grinned back. тАЬOf course.тАЭ

He drained his cup. тАЬTell me about the Higgs.тАЭ

She pursed her lips. тАЬAs you said, a type of field. Still far from being
understood. The Large Hadron Collider we have here was meant to
investigate it. Current ideas have been expanded from theories first
developed in the 1980s and тАШ90s to explain how the electroweak force,
which is transmitted by four zero-mass particles, could be transformed into
two separate forces, one of which has massive particles as its carrier. The
thinking was тАФ is тАФ that thereтАЩs some kind of a field, the Higgs, that
permeates all of space and that gave particles their masses when the early
universe congealed.тАЭ

тАЬAnd the collider is able to re-melt that field.тАЭ

тАЬYou smash together two beams of protons at seventeen teravolts,
you get a hell of a lot of interesting effects.тАЭ

тАЬIncluding travel through time?тАЭ

Again, she smiled. Then stood up. тАЬLetтАЩs walk. You feel like walking?тАЭ