Big Bang Day: Five Particles
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles
Big Bang Day: Five Particles - The Antiparticle
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles. Every elementary particle has an antiparticle. Should the two meet and combine, the result is annihilation.
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Big Bang Day: Five Particles - The Electron
Simon Singh examines the significance of five subatomic particles in five programmes. In the first programme he tells the story of the discovery of the electron.
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Big Bang Day: Five Particles - The Neutrino
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles. The neutrino is the most common particle in the universe, continuously passing through each of us in millions.
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Big Bang Day: Five Particles - The Next Particle
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles. A symmetric partner to all the known particles could provide the key to understandinging them and their interactions.
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Big Bang Day: Five Particles - The Quark
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles. Quarks comprise virtually all visible material in the universe, but why do we know so little about them?
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