The standard model, beauty quarks, and the future of particle physics - with Harry Cliff

The standard model of particle physics successfully accounts for all of the matter in the universe, and three out of four fundamental forces. But only 5% of the universe is made of matter. So what about the rest?

Particle physicist and science communicator Harry Cliff explains what the standard model doesn't account for, and what research is being done to address this, including his own research on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN.

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Producer and presenter: Lia Hale

Music: Joseph Sandy

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