289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments

417.518 - 437.573 Sean Carroll

It was not clear what purpose it served. It was not part of the atom or anything like that. Of course, today, there's plenty of things that are not part of our everyday human existence, but they're there, out there as particles. Muons are heavier cousins of the electrons, so they have a lot of benefits that electrons have and protons have. They're kind of a happy medium in between them.