Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

01:00 - 05:20

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  1. BBC Radio 4
  2. Programmes
  3. Big Bang Day: Five Particles
  4. Episodes
  5. Available now on BBC iPlayer

Big Bang Day: Five Particles episodes available now on BBC iPlayer

(5 programmes)

  1. The Next Particle

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    Available since Fri, 12 Sep 2008.

    5/5. A symmetric partner to all the known particles could provide the key to understanding them

  2. The Neutrino

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    Available since Thu, 11 Sep 2008.

    4/5. The most common particle in the universe continuously passes through each of us.

  3. The Antiparticle

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    Available since Thu, 11 Sep 2008.

    3/5. Every particle has an antiparticle. Should the two combine, the result is annihilation.

  4. The Quark

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    Available since Tue, 9 Sep 2008.

    2/5. Quarks comprise virtually all visible material, but why do we know so little about them?

  5. The Electron

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    Available since Mon, 8 Sep 2008.

    1/5. Physicist JJ Thompson's experiments with electric currents showed that atoms are divisible

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