The Basic Building Blocks of Matter

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In the past century, physicists have discovered new constituents of matter-quarks, gluons, neutrinos, and many others. These basic building blocks have been linked together into a theoretical framework, the Standard Model of particle physics. There are hints that the Standard Model is incomplete, and that a deeper theory lies behind it. See how scientists are seeking answers to these questions with the latest neutrino experiments and the search for the Higgs boson.

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28 min 13 sec

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