The Quest for Glueballs
The quantum world is weird. Today we're looking at a strange particle called a glueball that contains no matter...they're made of pure force! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/veritasium/snatom...
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There’s a certain attitude that particle physicists tend to take when it comes to their experiments: Smash first, ask questions later. When it comes to the tiniest particles in the universe, there’s a lot we still don’t know. So physicists study them using particle accelerators, huge machines that get particles -- like protons, or electrons -- moving almost as fast as the speed of light. Then they smash them together, and… physics happens. Very explode-y physics. And sometimes, the researchers can’t predict what’s going to come out of the reaction. Instead, they have to work backward, looking at the data and using math to figure out what the heck just happened. Which is why, in September, physicists from the Technical University of Vienna ...
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There’s a certain attitude that particle physicists tend to take when it comes to their experiments: Smash first, ask questions later. When it comes to the tiniest particles in the universe, there’s a lot we still don’t know. So physicists study them using particle accelerators, huge machines that get particles -- like protons, or electrons -- moving almost as fast as the speed of light. Then they smash them together, and… physics happens. Very explode-y physics. And sometimes, the researchers can’t predict what’s going to come out of the reaction. Instead, they have to work backward, looking at the data and using math to figure out what the heck just happened. Which is why, in September, physicists from the Technical University of Vienna ...
