289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments

3107.731 - 3135.875 Cari Cesarotti

Yeah, so the thing with these higher generation particles is that because they have all the same properties as the lower generation particles, if you want to be fancy, we'll call them quantum numbers, and they have higher mass, is that they have this really unpleasant tendency to want to decay, which is why atoms are made out of electrons and not muons, because muons, like you say, live for 10 to the minus 6 seconds, and then they decay away to neutrinos and electrons.