Physicists may have to rethink how universe works after ‘tantalising’ results

The LHCb Muon system at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research Large Hadron Collider facility (Maximilien Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN via AP)

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the way physicists think the universe works – a prospect that has the field of particle physics baffled and thrilled.

Tiny particles called muons are not quite doing what is expected of them in two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe.