Many physicists here spent the night huddled in the hall so that they could secure a prized seat. By 8:00 a.m., the fire brigade was turning away bleary-eyed scientists who had queued for hours. The lucky few who made it inside the lecture theatre at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, witnessed the end of an epic quest in high-energy physics - and the start of a new campaign.
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