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🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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What strange creatures inhabit the so-called “particle zoo”? Why is it a zoo instead of something simpler? Is there anything that connects the forces and particles of our universe? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | We've all heard stories of dystopian worlds, whether in the future or from our own past, |
| 0:12.5 | like stories of the oppressors and the oppressed, of the haves and the have-nots, of the rulers |
| 0:18.6 | and the ruled. |
| 0:21.0 | And we have examples of these stories from like medieval Europe, or we have stories of the |
| 0:28.6 | far future of, oh, it's going to be a horrible future. |
| 0:31.3 | We hear a lot of these stories. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm going to tell you another one of these stories of such a dystopian realm. |
| 0:38.7 | But this world doesn't take place in the past. |
| 0:41.6 | It's not from history. |
| 0:42.7 | And it's not in the future. |
| 0:44.3 | This world is right here. |
| 0:47.5 | It's all around us. |
| 0:49.2 | But it's hidden from us. |
| 0:51.1 | It's buried underneath layers and layers of powerful forces and energies. |
| 0:58.8 | And only the most powerful experiments reveal the true nature of this reality. In fact, we |
| 1:05.1 | knew hardly anything about it until about 100 years ago. We finally had the techniques developed where we could |
| 1:12.3 | probe the subatomic world, where we could probe like the actual atomic world. |
| 1:17.7 | Like, you know, it was only like 100 years ago or so that we realized that atoms were a thing |
| 1:22.3 | and that there's stuff beneath atoms. Adams are not the most tiniest, building blockiest things in the universe |
| 1:30.9 | are actually made of stuff. |
| 1:31.9 | And what goes on beneath the level of atoms is crazy complicated. |
| 1:36.6 | I mean, I'm not even joking. |
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