Season
Season 2025 Episode
- Season 2022 How To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Season 2022 How To Build The Universe in a Computer
- Season 2022 How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
- Season 2022 Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
- Season 2022 Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
- Season 2022 Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
- Season 2022 What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Season 2022 Where Is The Center of The Universe?
- Season 2022 Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
- Season 2022 Does the Universe Create Itself?
- Season 2022 How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
- Season 2022 Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Season 2022 What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- Season 2022 The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
- Season 2022 What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?
- Season 2022 Have We SOLVED The Black Hole Information Paradox with Wormholes?
- Season 2022 Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Season 2022 Could We Decode Alien Physics?
- Season 2022 What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
- Season 2022 How Many States Of Matter Are There?
- Season 2022 What Happens Inside a Proton?
- Season 2022 What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
- Season 2022 What Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Season 2022 Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
- Season 2022 Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Season 2022 Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?
- Season 2022 The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- Season 2022 The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Season 2022 Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
- Season 2022 What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?
- Season 2022 Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
- Season 2022 How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
- Season 2022 How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
- Season 2022 How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?
PBS Space Time - Season 2022 Episode 11 How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
10.00 48 minutes 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 analysing the data. This culminated in the April 7 announcement that this obscure particle’s mass seems to be heavier than expected. So why do we care? Because understanding why this particle even has mass was one of the most important breakthroughs in our understanding of the subatomic world. And because measuring its precise mass either doubles down on our current understanding or reveals a path to an even deeper knowledge. The FermiLab discrepancy is a tantalizing hint of the latter.
