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Dark matter, time travel and meta theatre: Emma Howlett on Aether
“Aether is a play about the unknown, and has multiple narratives colliding and entangling with this ensemble of particles,” Howlett begins, talking a mile a minute because quites simply, the play, like Howlett’s conversation, covers a lot of ground. She continues, “The central story is of Sophie, this PhD student at Cambridge who’s a particle physicist, and she’s working on a dark matter experiment at CERN in Geneva [the European Organisation for Nuclear Research]. Physicists are right now this decision because this experiment’s coming to an end with the Large Hadron Collider and they’ve found the Higgs [boson, the particle that confirms the existence of the Higgs field which permeates the universe and gives mass to particles like quarks and electrons], but the next thing behind that supersymmetry of dark matter hasn’t really come forward.
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