The 7 Decays That Could Break Physics (CERN's Secret Weapon)

Описание: What if the universe is hiding particles too heavy to ever create—but we can still catch them in the act?

In this deep-dive documentary, we explore one of the most ambitious hunts in modern physics: the search for fingerprints left by invisible criminals. From the discovery of strange particles in 1947 to CERN's breakthrough announcement in September 2024, the evidence points to something profound—there may be an entire layer of reality we cannot directly see, only infer.

This is not speculation. This is precision physics.

We begin with a mystery that baffled physicists for decades—particles that were created quickly but decayed slowly. Then we follow the trail through Murray Gell-Mann's quarks, the GIM mechanism that predicted the charm quark, and the elegant suppression that makes certain decays happen fewer than once in ten billion times.

We explore how virtual particles in quantum loops can reveal physics at energy scales the Large Hadron Collider will never reach directly. We examine Andrzej Buras's Magnificent Seven—the rare decays that could shatter the Standard Model. We go inside NA62, Belle II, KOTO, and LHCb, where physicists are watching billions of particles decay, waiting for the one-in-ten-billion event that changes everything.

We confront a tantalizing hint: NA62's measured decay rate is fifty percent higher than predicted. Statistical fluctuation, or the first fingerprint of the zeptouniverse?

Moving deeper, we ask what it would mean if new physics is found—and what it would mean if it isn't. Using real experiments, real data, and the words of the physicists conducting them, we investigate whether particles we cannot produce might still leave traces we can detect.

Join us for a scientific investigation where cutting-edge particle physics meets detective work at the smallest scales imaginable. Every claim is grounded in verified experiments and peer-reviewed science.

The decays are rare. The precision is extraordinary. The stakes could not be higher.

Somewhere in those ten billion events, the answer is waiting.


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