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The track she was looking at, later labelled k, was evidence of an unknown particle, now known as the kaon or K meson.

What a miracle it seemed that boxes of punched cardboard cards could produce pages and pages of a printed simulation of a collision between a K meson and a proton.

One of their most baffling stunts was to produce the K meson, a short-lived particle knocked out of atomic nuclei.