Perl's of wisdom

Physics moves fast, and what was once a major discovery quickly becomes bread and butter for a subsequent generation of experiments. Nowhere is this more true that with the Z particle - the electrically neutral carrier of the weak nuclear force. Long expected following the revelation at CERN in 1973 that the weak nuclear force does not necessarily permute electric charge, the Z was discovered by Carlo Rubbia's UA 1 team at CERN's proton - antiproton collider in 1983