Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper

Scientists like Prof. Dan Hooper from the University of Chicago use something called the Standard Model of Physics to explain our universe, but there’s one big problem: The model has black hole-sized gaps in it. Hooper says it will probably take a paradigm-shifting discovery to answer the mysteries of our universe, and that those are a once-in-a-lifetime event. But, this year, something called the muon G-2 experiment at UChicago-affiliated Fermilab may have been just that discovery.

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