7 Feb 2022

Professor Yen-Jie Lee, a glimpse into the dawn of time

From Karyn Hay Presents..., 9:08 am on 7 February 2022

Tiny particles from the dawn of time have been spotted at Switzerland's Hadron Collider. The so called 'X particles' are thought to have existed for just fractions of a second after the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, when many scientists say our universe was born. Last month about a hundred X particles were seen for the very first time at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Professor Yen-Jie Lee is one of the scientists behind the discovery.

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