‘Exciting’ breakthrough at Large Hadron Collider may be key to unlocking mysteries of universe – By Sarah Knapton (The Telegraph) / April 8 2021
Physicists have seen signs that a mystery force is interacting with other particles in a manner never witnessed before. It may explain some of the deepest physics puzzles
The key to understanding how the universe works may have been discovered by scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider in a breakthrough hailed as the most exciting in 20 years.
Physicists have seen signs that a mystery force is interacting with other particles in a manner never witnessed before. It may explain some of the deepest puzzles in modern physics, such as what dark matter is made from, or why there is an imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe.
Currently, scientists understand the universe using the Standard Model, a theory which describes all the known fundamental particles and the forces that they interact with.
It sets out the workings of the building blocks of nature: quarks, leptons, force-carrier particles and the Higgs boson. But the Standard Model breaks down when it comes to explaining crucial issues such as gravity or why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
