When it comes to particle physics, Tova Holmes has been there, done that and got the T-shirt – in fact, she designed the T-shirt herself. It all started back in 2022, when she and a few colleagues arrived at a meeting of particle physicists determined to make the case for developing an entirely new kind of particle-smashing machine.
They did so by sporting tops emblazoned with a motif representing...
The strongest version of this narrative presents the muon collider as a bold, necessary leap for particle physics—a field stagnating after the LHC’s Higgs discovery. Advocates like Tova Holmes frame it as a high-reward gamble, leveraging recent breakthroughs in muon beam control to overcome decades-old technical hurdles. The article steelmans the case by highlighting the muon collider’s unique advantages: higher energy collisions in a compact design, cleaner interactions than proton colliders, a...