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The Particle We’ve Been Chasing for 30 Years Might Not Exist
Season 11
Episode 20
The universe thrums with quantum fields; and the particles of matter and force emerge as vibrational manifestations of the deep symmetries of these fields. The layers and reflections of those symmetries give us the wonderful richness of what we call the standard model of particle physics. Except there seems to be something missing: the sterile neutrino.
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Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.
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Nuclei are held together by a quirk of nature, without which there’d be nothing.
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Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!
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If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.
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Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did.
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We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower.
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We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table.