A astronomy cast, episode 486, particle physics update.

Welcome to astronomy cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where

we help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

I'm Frieza Kane, publisher of the Universe today with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, the director

of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the director

of Cosmic West. Hey Pamela, how you doing? I'm doing well, Fraser. How are you doing?

You're back from all kinds of trips. I am. I most recently returned from attending a

communicating astronomy with the public meeting over in Japan where I got to be face to face

with Aviva Yamani, who's our project director for 365 days of astronomy. So that was quite exciting.

And all the other awesome humans who are in science communications from all the places I don't get

to visit were there. So it was amazing. Yeah, there was clearly this gigantic group that was

there because my normal people for reaching out for outreach each person was, oh, I can't this

week. I'm in Japan. Oh, I can't this week. I'm in Japan. Like, okay, I get it now. I should be in

Japan. Just ask. We can see if we can get you there next time. All right, next year. I believe

I communicate astronomy to the public. You do? All right, let's get on with this week's show. So

it's time for news update. This time from the field of particle physics turns out there have been

all kinds of new and interesting particles discovered by the large Hadron Collider and others.

Let's get an update for Pamela. I want to start this episode with the disclaimer that I am sure

there is a particle out there that you missed. Yeah, I'm quite certain of that. So this is going to

be my best attempt. And I'm sure there's going to be gaps. So apologies. If I miss your favorite

new discovery, I'm doing the best I can. And also that you are not a particle physicist. No.

So it's entirely possible that you're going to get the obscure interesting things about these

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