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Physics Experiments

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

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The Higgs Boson in the Large Hadron Collider

In 2012, the large Hadron collider found something that had been created for a fraction of a second. There was no catastrophe. The world didn't end. But finding reassurance in the survival of the universe after the successful creation of the Higgs boson is actually a logical fallacy. We tend to assume that because no catastrophe has befallen us yet, none will. It's the same false belief that drives investors to buy stock based on past performance.

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