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1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"
Episode 1655
Published 6 days, 15 hours ago
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Interesting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground, but many survive the trip as their internal clocks slow near light speed; particle accelerators use the same effect to study unstable particles before they vanish