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How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass

Fermilab physicists really care about the mass of the W boson. They spent nearly a decade recording collisions in the Tevatron collider and another decade analyzing the data. This culminated in the April 7 announcement that this obscure particle’s mass seems to be heavier than expected. Understanding why this particle even has mass was one of the most important breakthroughs in our understanding.
Season 8 Episode 13 Length 17:26 Premiere: 04/27/22

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How Can Matter Be Both Liquid And Gas?
S8 E36 Length 15:19 Premiere Date 12/14/22

How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
S8 E35 Length 15:31 Premiere Date 12/08/22

How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
S8 E34 Length 12:53 Premiere Date 11/23/22

Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
S8 E33 Length 16:13 Premiere Date 11/16/22

What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
S8 E32 Length 15:30 Premiere Date 11/09/22

Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
S8 E31 Length 14:40 Premiere Date 10/26/22

The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
S8 E30 Length 15:29 Premiere Date 10/19/22

The Real Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
S8 E29 Length 14:59 Premiere Date 10/12/22

Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
S8 E28 Length 14:37 Premiere Date 09/28/22

Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
S8 E27 Length 12:00 Premiere Date 09/21/22

Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
S8 E26 Length 13:42 Premiere Date 09/14/22

What Makes The Strong Force Strong?
S8 E25 Length 15:34 Premiere Date 08/24/22

What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
S8 E24 Length 15:22 Premiere Date 08/17/22

What Happens Inside a Proton?
S8 E23 Length 15:15 Premiere Date 08/03/22

How Many States Of Matter Are There?
S8 E22 Length 13:14 Premiere Date 07/27/22

What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
S8 E21 Length 15:00 Premiere Date 07/20/22

Could We Decode Alien Physics?
S8 E20 Length 14:25 Premiere Date 06/30/22

Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?
S8 E19 Length 14:31 Premiere Date 06/22/22

Have We Solved The Black Hole Information Paradox
S8 E18 Length 14:09 Premiere Date 06/15/22

What If Physics IS Not Describing Reality?
S8 E17 Length 13:29 Premiere Date 06/01/22

The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
S8 E16 Length 13:14 Premiere Date 05/25/22

What If the Galactic Habitable Zone Limits Intelligent Life?
S8 E15 Length 14:48 Premiere Date 05/18/22

Space Does Not Expand Everywhere
S8 E14 Length 13:51 Premiere Date 05/04/22

How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
S8 E13 Length 17:26 Premiere Date 04/27/22

Does the Universe Create Itself?
S8 E12 Length 13:46 Premiere Date 04/20/22

Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
S8 E11 Length 12:47 Premiere Date 03/30/22

Where Is The Center of The Universe?
S8 E10 Length 14:21 Premiere Date 03/23/22

What If Charge is Not Fundamental?
S8 E9 Length 13:47 Premiere Date 03/16/22

Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
S8 E8 Length 15:33 Premiere Date 03/08/22

Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
S8 E7 Length 15:41 Premiere Date 02/23/22

Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
S8 E6 Length 13:31 Premiere Date 02/16/22

How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
S8 E5 Length 12:36 Premiere Date 01/27/22

How To Build The Universe in a Computer
S8 E4 Length 12:26 Premiere Date 01/19/22

How To Simulate The Universe With DFT
S8 E3 Length 14:14 Premiere Date 01/12/22

How to Find Alien Dyson Spheres
S8 E2 Length 14:28 Premiere Date 12/29/21

What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?
S8 E1 Length 13:29 Premiere Date 12/20/21

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