A team of scientists went through four years and years data from a particle collider. And what they came up with was that the expected weight of the W boson did not match reality. So that's another failing or shortcoming, if you want to call it that, of this standard model. Doesn't mean it's wrong. It just may be incomplete.
There are some things you just have to know to keep up with the headlines. Things that, in some cases, provide crucial insights into who we are and how we and the universe we are part of work. It might be that a big picture concept of the fundamental building blocks of reality is one of those things. If you, like me, really want to understand something about physics, but find yourself thwarted at every turn by boring, overly-technical, confusing, and poorly organized presentations, allow The History of Being Human Podcast to throw its hat into the ring. What follows is my own boring, confusing presentation of some key ideas, presented as only a naive mind can. All I can say in my defense is that you really just have to know this. Or not.
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