Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 27 segments
Journey inside the search for extra dimensions with guest Lara Anderson in this fascinating science episode. Explore string theory, hidden spatial dimensions, and the experiments physicists use to…
Lara AndersonGuest
Neil deGrasse TysonHost
Jordan KlepperGuest
In the recent years since the detection of this, this was something that theory had predicted roughly 50 years before.
So my experimental colleagues would be annoyed at me for saying this, but by the time of the actual discovery of the Higgs boson 15 years ago, this was something that we really expected to be there.
The thing that everybody is waiting for is, is there any physics beyond the Higgs boson that we can discover with accelerators like the LHC? And that, the jury is still out.
No, but thoroughly, I think, because when you discover a particle, there's a statistical confidence that you have in that discovery.
And how strong is the statistical support for it? So would you say, Laura, that no one is doubting the discovery? Of course, there's been a Nobel Prize given for it.
So as the particle that is giving mass to the rest of the particles in our standard model zoo of particle physics, the sort of key role of the Higgs boson is very much confirmed in all the experiments that have come since.
In the recent years since the detection of this, this was something that theory had predicted roughly 50 years before.
So my experimental colleagues would be annoyed at me for saying this, but by the time of the actual discovery of the Higgs boson 15 years ago, this was something that we really expected to be there.
The thing that everybody is waiting for is, is there any physics beyond the Higgs boson that we can discover with accelerators like the LHC? And that, the jury is still out.
No, but thoroughly, I think, because when you discover a particle, there's a statistical confidence that you have in that discovery.
And how strong is the statistical support for it? So would you say, Laura, that no one is doubting the discovery? Of course, there's been a Nobel Prize given for it.
So as the particle that is giving mass to the rest of the particles in our standard model zoo of particle physics, the sort of key role of the Higgs boson is very much confirmed in all the experiments that have come since.
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