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#471 - Jim Al-Khalili - Physics Is Far Stranger Than You Think

Modern Wisdom

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The Higgs Boson and Supersymmetric Particles

Until about ten n 20 years ago, a lot of phycs were very confident that we that we were nearly there. But it has stagnated over the last decade or so r and and we haven't made the big advances. The last really, truly surprising advance in physics was back in 19 98 when we discovered dark energy. After the higgs boson, they were hoping to discover a whole host of family of particles called super symmetric particles. They would help explain what i was telling m only about a grand unified theory which unifies the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force and the strong force into one all encompassing theory.

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