Episode 69: The Flavor Puzzle with Joe Davighi

Physics Frontiers by Jim Rantschler

Nov 20, 202243:00Science & Medicine

Jim talks with Joe Davighi of the University of Zurich about the flavor unification at high energies - the merging of all leptons into one kind of particle. The discussion includes symmetries in particle physics, symmetr...

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