Particle Physics For All

Table of contents  MORE ON  PARTICLE PHYSICS  & WHY DOES IT MATTER? View my previous article here - Particle Physics - Introduction View the next article here - Antimatter - Introduction ----------------------------------------- In the previous article , I did write about what particle physics is. Let us go a little more in-depth about what particle physicists do. The main goal of particle physicists remains the study of the universe.  Over the past half-century, particle physicists have formulated the Standard Model , a framework that explains the visible universe from the smallest to the largest scales.  With its fundamental particles and the forces that act between them, this model describes nearly all of the visible matter that has been seen in experiments so far.  Dark matter and dark energy make up 95 per cent of the universe , yet scientists are still trying to figure out their origins and what they are made of. Others in the community research a...