Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?

My favorite line yet, “Physicists are very stubborn; and very good at finding ways to do things they should not be able to.”

The fact that we have machines so precise that we can casually discuss tracking subatomic particle collisions is incredible.

I love how this channel about high level astronomy and particle physics gets millions of views. You somehow have done the impossible and made physics break into the mainstream crowd. Incredible work every video.

I've been subbed to PBS Space Time for so long now, I can watch entire episodes and understand at least 37% of what Matt is telling me.

I mean if the Higgs boson would be ever so kind as to show us what dark matter is, that would be very nice of them.

As a person who earned their PhD in particle physics earlier this year I have to say I absolutely love this channel. Been watching it for years and it always keeps me thinking, fantastic work ✊🏾

It's still a wonder to me that we have this giant loop through which we can aim accurately enough to collide subatomic particles, at speeds that break intuitive physics, then make out a whole tree of decaying particles, and identify each precisely enough to confidently know when something's off

I have no formal education in physics. However, I put this channel on whenever it's late at night and I want to have my mind blown at what humanity has been able to deduce from observation, experimentation, documentation, and more imagination & hard work than any single person can fathom. Thanks for explaining topics in a way where you're completely true to the physics, yet make it light hearted and intriguing enough to keep me up, late into the night, learning new and exciting ways of shedding light on even the darkest topics in... SpaceTime.

Wow! what exceptional restraint to not sensationalize and overhype what is undoubtedly an avenue of research highly worth pursuing! I expected the end of the video to be either 'we don't have the data yet' or 'this also didn't pan out'. But presenting the results so honestly and without fanfare and instead pointing to ongoing promising research was once again an example of how professional and scientific this channel is!

My goodness I've been studying particle physics since late middle school, I'm going to college next year, Im aiming to work at an accelerator one day. This stuff is so exciting I reallllllly can't wait to learn more in college

This was an amazingly well written episode, managed to keep me hooked on a subject I know nothing about and seems incredibly complex. Well done !

I'm sure some channel's done it before, but I'd love to see a series on this channel where the videos discuss each type of subatomic particle. Not just the ones in the standard model, but ones like protons/neutrons, pions, kaons, pentaquarks, tetraquarks. One video at a time. You could make an entire series just about the standard model particles, too. You could discuss a particles' interactions, the history of its discovery, the implications of its discovery, the role it plays in physics etc. It might get to be a bit much watching (and making!) a 10-20 minute video for every particle, type of particle and combination of particle but I for one think it would be great fun.

Love when Matt gets Higgy wit' it.

finding anything at all that reacts with dark matter in a way that visualises it in a way that we can detect it... that'd be like finding the holy grail

I know this is a small thing, but I love that every episode ends with the words space time .

I'm so used to dead end for finding out what Dark Matter is, that the branching fraction up to 0.26 had me jump on my armchair! Looking forward for future development on this topic.

I love you PBS spacetime, it was initially my childish and naive amazement with the complexity of GR and QFT, over the years I have more or less become an amateur mathematician in pursuit of understanding these theories, but even now, I still return to my ‘ sippy cup’ of PBS spacetime it is too good!

So this might come from my gaps in understanding, but if we detect what is presumably the fundamental dark matter particle via the Higgs, are we assuming it's a solitary particle or could there potentially be an entire "dark model" that exists beside the standard model?

After decades of thinking I finally figured out that the Emperor's new clothes are actually made of dark matter....

That conservation of momentum method of detecting invisible particals is pretty slick