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No single person can understand a result like the Higgs boson in depth, and that is what a paper with a thousand authors actually means.

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  1. Michael Nielsen

    Physicist, writer and researcher

    and I don't think it's possible for one person to understand everything in depth. Lots of people understand broadly a lot of these ideas but they don't understand sort of everything in in the depth that is actually utilized. That's why there's these, you know, papers with with well over a thousand authors.

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