Up Next
Back to Show
PBS Space Time
Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
Season 8
Episode 26
The discovery of the Higgs boson ten years ago in the Large Hadron Collider was the culmination of decades of work and the collaboration of 1000s of brilliant and passionate people. The discovery of the Higgs wasn’t the end of particle physics - but it may be the way forward. Many physicists think that the secret to finding the elusive dark matter particle will come by studying the Higgs.
Sign up now for inspiring and thought-provoking media delivered straight to your inbox.
Support Provided By
13:39
What does an electron really look like?
16:35
Is there a limit to how much energy you can cram into, or pull out of one patch of space?
17:19
I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!
11:43
Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.
18:40
Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?
14:05
New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.
15:14
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
16:08
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
17:44
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
16:51
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
19:25
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
17:02
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?