
Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to See a Unicorn Trap?
'If you create the right conditions, these other big, heavy particles that you don't have enough energy to actually make, they can still influence what's going on. They can appear momentarily, they can like, pop out of the vacuum and nudge some of the particles we can see,' he says. 'So that tells you about that particle. We yousee effect of it.' He adds: 'It's sort of like if you go to the forest and look for unicorns, the best thing to do is to like, see a unicorn, right? Ok? You got a unicorn, you bring it home'.
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