• Question: is there a chance that there is a particle we have not discovered

    Asked by anon-244414 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Absolutely! We are trying all the time to discover new particles and how they interact- that’s what Eleanor and the rest of the scientists are working on at CERN!

      And we really hope that Dark Matter is a particle we haven’t discovered yet as well!

    • Photo: Jordan McElwee

      Jordan McElwee answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      It would almost be stranger if there weren’t particles that we haven’t discovered! All physicists want there to be new particles, it means there are more things for us to study and investigate.

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      100%! There has to be more than what we have already discovered as there are still too many questions that remain unanswered by our current knowledge. As Ed says, that is one of the things that the experiments at CERN are looking for!

    • Photo: Ondrej Kovanda

      Ondrej Kovanda answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Absolutely, and scientists are rather optimistic. For instance, a good portion of people in our experiment ATLAS at LHC are searching for so called supersymetric particles – ‘super’-counterparts of the particles we already know. Other experiments focus on new types of neutrinos, and the list goes on… 🙂

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