It’s an exciting time in particle physics. The results of a new experiment out of Fermilab in Illinois involving a subatomic particle wobbling weirdly could lead to new ways of understanding our universe.
To understand why physicists are so excited, consider the ambitious task they’ve set for themselves: decoding the fundamental building blocks of
everything in the universe. For decades, they’ve been trying to do that by building a big, overarching theory known as the standard model.
The standard model is like a glossary, describing all the building blocks of the universe that we’ve found so far: subatomic particles like electrons, neutrinos, and quarks that make up everything around us, and three of the four fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak, and strong) that hold things together.
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