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Well, the good news is I found a theoretical physicist on another forum, so I won't have to cold-call John Cramer. (I'm sure he's nice. I just hate dropping in to ask people for information out of the blue.)
The bad news is that the details in my work-in-progress are way (WAY!) off base. Turns out, the LHC doesn't allow for small, independent research groups, so I've now got to somehow fit my protagonists and their jaw-dropping research results into one of the multinational research projects currently underway at CERN. And I've got to explain, disambiguate and justify all of that succintly enough to keep it from overpowering everything else in a 2000-word story.
See? This is why I generally stick to distant planets and alternate realities. It's so much easier to just make stuff up...
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