
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Questions About Particle Physics
particle physicist: Sometimes two big mysteries are the answers to each other. "It's pretty amazing to think that, you know, we have this intuitive view of our or intuitive sense of the universe as being these kind of giant pool table with builder balls bouncing around," he says. The building intuitive understanding usually means explaining the unknown in terms of the known. But here, the unknown is so radically different than the known that it's really hard sometimes to describe it in terms of familiar concepts.
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