
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Why Do Heavy Particles Exist?
We know these heavy cousin versions of the electron and the cork exist because they can be made in a particle collider, for example. That's how we know they technically exist, even though you don't see them around very much. The answer to that is that nature doesn't like heavy stuff. So the heavy ones are short-lived. They tend to decay into the lighter ones.
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