189 - What's the Point of Particle Colliders?

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Special guest Cari Cesarotti tells us why so many particle physicists are itching to build a whole new type of particle collider.

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Einstein aurait tiré la langue devant ce problème. Car il y a comme un couac dans la physique. Le comportement de deux particules subatomiques (le muon et le méson B) échappe aux règles du modèle standard, qui cochait jusqu'alors toutes les cases expliquant le fonctionnement de l ...  Show more

For the past century, physicists have been building particle colliders as a way to learn about the fundamental laws of physics. Today we talk about why smashing particles together has proven to be such a powerful tool.

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We are all made of particles – but what are particles made of? It’s a question that’s been perplexing scientists for centuries - for so long, in fact, that listener Doug in Canada wants to know if there’s a limit to how much they can ever discover. CrowdScience heads out to CERN, ...  Show more