<p>goldenboy, Michigan’s Physics (and virtually all of its departments) department is ranked in or around the top 10 in the US. It is not surprising that Kane and many other profesors and students (undergrad and graduate) are working at CERN. </p>
<p>Where Kane is concerned, he used “String Thery Calculations” to predict the mass of the Higgs boson.</p>
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