In an unprecedented feat of computation, particle theorists made the most precise prediction yet of the mass of the ‘charm–bottom’ particle. Days later, experimentalists dramatically confirmed that prediction.
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Shipsey, I. Weighty questions. Nature 436, 186–187 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436186a
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