Particles we think exist but have no proof.

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. " - Aristotle Onassis

We live in a world in which people think we know everything, that there is nothing left to know. This is quite a dumb claim, in my opinion we can never know everything... but we can at least try.

Physics falls into this category, except I believe we can know everything [or at least 99% of it]. Many people tell me physics is a dead subject, that theres nothing more to be found. 

"You couldn't be more wrong"

Like a boxer, physics is just getting warmed up - waiting for the big fights.

The Higgs and the Graviton.

Possibly the most important particle in physics, the Higgs boson [and the Higgs field, a Higgs boson medium] which i will discuss more in my next post, which is directly aimed at the Higgs. This is briefly an introduction into what I'm going to be discussing.

Many particles are still needed to be found, even particles that govern laws we have thought to have understood for years. Something that governs your everyday life.

Gravity and mass.

Many people think gravity is controlled by a particle, like mass. Mass is gained in a sense. Gravitons [gravity particles] are thought to exchange.

You may have heard of the LHC [Large Hadron Collider], one a quick side note a hadron is a "composite particle made up of quarks in a bound state". At the LHC, they smash together Hydrogen nuclei [protons] and recreate the conditions billionths of a second after the big bang, and record the particles created in the process.

LHC's [not the LHC] have proved useful, we've found gluons, tau's, muons and tau neutrons, and theres more.

In these next few posts I will inform you of particles that are unfound but, expected to exist. I will also explain how we are trying to find them and how close we are to finding them, truly a fascinating thing.

Thanks for reading, Ben.