What's smaller than an electron?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The natural world can be broken down into atoms. And those atoms can be broken down even further. Will the discovery of smaller and smaller particles ever stop?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brains On, where we're serious about being curious.
0:04.6	Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:10.8	Run for your lives!
0:14.8	Addoms, millions upon billions upon trillions of them!
0:22.1	We interrupt this program to bring you an atom update.
0:25.1	It looks like there's more of these particles than we thought.
0:28.8	There are actually smaller particles than atoms surrounding us and wait, wait, I'm being
0:33.5	handed an update.
0:34.5	They're passing through us right now.
0:37.1	Oh no, I fear this may be the end.
0:41.4	Oh, I'm going to take a moment to speak directly to my mother.
0:45.0	Mama, I love you!
0:47.7	Relax, atoms are nothing to be scared about.
0:50.5	They help make up everything around us.
0:52.5	They're great.
0:53.5	In fact, in today's show we're going to take a closer look at atoms and beyond.
1:00.5	You're listening to Brains On from American Public Media.
1:04.8	I'm Molly Bloom and with me today is 10-year-old Mary Poole from Atlanta.
1:08.9	Hi, Mary Poole.
1:09.9	Hi.
1:10.9	Today we are looking at some pretty tiny particles, like atoms.
1:16.3	And we're going to get even smaller to figure out this question.
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