Muons Could Change the Future of Physicists

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Jessica eskivell is a physicist who works it firmy loud in illinois. We're very, very close to potentially new particles that exist beyond the standard model. It all has to do with the strange wobble of one of these standard modelled particles called muon. Muons are sort of like less stable versions of electrons and could change the future of physics.

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.

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