Scientists Found Particle 'X,' Now What?!

For the first time ever, scientists at CERN have spotted a bizarre “X" particle in a recreation of the primordial soup that existed just moments after the Big Bang, using the LHC.
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For the first time, scientists have spotted a bizarre “X” particle in a recreation of the primordial soup that existed just moments after the Big Bang. By smashing billions of lead ions together using the Large Hadron Collider, researchers were able to find just about 100 of these mysterious particles, but that could be the start of figuring out what exactly this “X” particle is made of. That’s why it’s just called the “X particle”; it’s not like it broke up with a physicist. There are a few different ideas on what it could be but no one is sure yet. Figuring it out could tell us more about what the universe was like a split second after it formed and help us better understand the protons and neutrons that make up the nuclei of atoms.
To understand the mystery, we’re going to have to talk about fundamental particles called quarks. It’s also possible to have particles made of just two quarks, or more specifically a quark and antiquark pair. These particles are called mesons. Binding quarks together inside mesons, protons, and neutrons are gluons, which carry the strong force. And here’s some shocking news: The strong force is really strong. So strong that an isolated quark has never been observed because they seem to be locked inside protons and neutrons in all but the most extreme conditions.
Now we come to the mystery of the X particle: we think it’s made up of four quarks but nobody has been able to figure out yet how they’re arranged. The two leading ideas suggest either the four quarks are tightly bound up in a teeny space less than a third of a femtometer across, or they could be paired up in two mesons that form something like a loosely bound molecule as large as five femtometers.
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"Today, X particles are extremely rare, though physicists have theorized that they may be created in particle accelerators through quark coalescence, where high-energy collisions can generate similar flashes of quark-gluon plasma."
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"Quarks were first theorized in 1964 by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig. The two independently proposed that several of the particles thought to be fundamental-unable to be broken down into smaller parts-were actually made up of smaller particles called quarks. "
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[@louisgiokas2206]

In the early 1970s I was working, as a student, at the High Energy Physics department at a large research university. One of the experiments we worked on was at Fermi Lab. This was when we were using optical methods (film). There were images of 250K interactions. About 10K were usable. From these we found about 10 lambda resonance particles, which was the main purpose of the experiment. This is the kind of result that many of these experiments. So, the low number of X particles is not unusual.

[@austinjohnson4626]

Are there any such forms of matter such as gold and/or rare Earth elements crystals meteorites anything of that nature that we could Smash together that would give us more exotic data?

[@louisgiokas2206]

@@austinjohnson4626 Not sure. I don't understand the mention of gold. Rare earth elements are not actually that rare and can be found everywhere. We stopped mining them in the US for environmental reasons. Let the Chinese screw up their environment, they really don't care. The short answer to your question is no. The "exotic" nature of the materials has nothing to do with it.

[@RuroniSage_1111]

Ahh, the X particle and whatever the Webb Telescope sees when it’s calibrated, two things to look forward to this year!

[@deadpianist7494]

and metaverse

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@deadpianist7494 metaverse will take 50 years to commercialize it's future

[@user-Void-Star]

@@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 not 50 years in 13 years

[@SingleMaltBuckeye]

@@user-Void-Star or are you already in the metaverse. Could've been placed into an augmented reality years ago.

[@ozman7744]

Seeker is the only guy that actually speaks so well and easy to understand language in this complex stuff. Never seen such simple talking guy. I like this guy.

[@jlehm]

That’s Julian, not seeker.

[@ozman7744]

@@jlehm Seeker is his channel though so I call him by that

[@Thatlandydefenderdriver]

wait till you hear some lectures from feynmann

[@deadpianist7494]

what about vertasium?

[@DeuceGenius]

Try Richard Feynman wish he was around still. Best teacher of all time

[@LedmeisterDotCom]

"Now What?" You make the Powerpuff Girls of course. Wait, that was _chemical_ X. Sonuva...

[@DeuceGenius]

this is insane. most people i know will live their entire life having no clue how smart humans can be and how much we can figure out

[@131gen.garima7]

Haha true

[@yourhuckleberry6757]

Thank Pythagoras 👌

[@DavidGoliath1]

It has a political goal.

[@SolSystemDiplomat]

Time to get off this planet. Life was discovered on the other side of the galaxy. Let’s go.

[@ChimneyCrab737]

What when?

[@g1n059]

You're not even from this universe

[@TheBadoctopus]

Ok bye!

[@SolSystemDiplomat]

@@ChimneyCrab737 it’s a joke. 65 million years with rotating galaxies = dinosaurs on the earth on the other side of the galaxy… the galaxy is just spinning

[@SolSystemDiplomat]

@@g1n059 facts.

[@beatbox20fmj]

Now I just have more questions than answers

[@onbored9627]

That's the beauty of science. :D

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@onbored9627 questioning everything how can just human be this intelligent in trying to learn what's universe is made of

[@ikaeksen]

Gratz on nearly 5 million subscriptions!!

[@vicegt]

Knowing how thing normally play out, it's going to be somthing unexpected and raise another 100 years of questions.

[@cmilkau]

X is more like a category than a name. It is usually accompanied by a number, like "X(3872)" (I think it's the energy in MeV?), so which "X" are we talking about?

[@josephwhiting605]

X-17?

[@stanimirborov3765]

Sugar, spice, and everything nice These were the ingredients chosen To create the perfect little girls But Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concotion -- Chemical X Thus, The Powerpuff Girls were born Using their ultra-super powers Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime And the forces of evil

[@piesnthighs123]

the title is very confusing

[@evilotis01]

it's the X(3872), i believe

[@bishwajitgogoi1669]

X men

[@admsmith9251]

The perplexing question here is how the heat of this experimental fusion, which is thousands of times greater than the sun’s heat, does not affect the device or the laboratory and simply melts it.

[@SebastianWilger]

simple answer: the lhc is build for this! also the time this heat is at such high temp is very short.

[@Crunk_Cat]

Also the mass of the particle is so low that the heat is easily absorbed my the MUCH more massive colider

[@SebastianWilger]

@@Crunk_Cat exactly

[@asandax6]

I want to know how they measured the internal temperature of the sun.

[@thejackanapes5866]

@@asandax6 Mass, surface temperature, radius, and most importantly perhaps: the quantity of light the sun emits at specific wavelengths

[@sizanogreen9900]

Nice! Learning more about our fundamentals is always amazing.

[@danteception3831]

¡

[@simonmultiverse6349]

If I take my clothes off and bend over with my head between my knees, then I can see my fundamentals.

[@skaieknox4417]

Cool vid! So well explained! GREAT host!

[@aclearlight]

Lovely, comprehensible explanation, thank you!

[@user-po6nf2ne1u]

Very informative and interesting

[@zeus.edwards2662]

the more they dig they will realize the closer they get, is the further away they are. one day they will realize that the building blocks of our universe actually has building blocks for the blocks.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

Saying everything is made of strings will one day make sense

[@betashaw5870]

The four particles arrangement is something like this. One in the center and the rest three branching out from the center, at equal distance. Some of them have Quarks as center , while some have Anti-quarks as center. Such that those with Anti-quark as center are equal to number of those having Quarks as Center.

[@Lords1997]

Great now we need to try to stabilize them for longer observations & possible production.

[@machariawachira2783]

The next logical step is to find the professor and make chemical X. The Powerpuff girls aren't gonna make themselves 😂

[@physifacts]

😂

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@atibakojo3478]

So nobody ever says where the original elements came from to explode in the first place. And if there was nothing where was this going on?

[@WendelRosaBorges]

Loved this video

[@JoseAlba87]

Can't wait till science finds 🔍 Magic ✨

[@needheartranken]

Haha me and my closest friend believe that this Universe is really magic

[@yuvanraj2271]

Magic with logic won't be magic anymore.

[@Quwucuqin]

@@yuvanraj2271 true

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@yuvanraj2271 yes time travel just 150 years ago and fly a plane there people will say you are doing some satanic magic any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic it's a popular quote

[@needheartranken]

@@yuvanraj2271 What if I tell you magic is the most logical system that there is. It even perpetuates on itself, logically and systematically.

[@madtscientist8853]

That is great and all but we need to starting these partials and or see if we can move them like electronics we could have high energy sources if we ued different partials.

[@calderarecords]

5:48 - ROCK AND STONE! 😅

[@Majber]

probably nothing will happen with this in next 20 years

[@avatar4338]

What do you think will happen on the 5th?

[@MozartificeR]

Yeaharrr. The are getting creative with the collider:)

[@paxdriver]

It's probably 4x -1/3 quarks with one ghosting from a prior moment imho

[@merrilalmeida5982]

Oh I thought it broke up with physicist!!

[@full__tilt]

That made me laugh too 😂😂

[@drstone7014]

Creating a bubble in space time

[@leogama3422]

I can't believe. They finally found X!

[@mrbamfo5000]

That's nothing......I found XXX

[@yourguard4]

They found a PARTical of X

[@stanimirborov3765]

powerpuff girls

[@owlredshift]

And to think, it kept attempting to give itself to us all this time

[@Qwertype315]

Now, where do we look for Y?

[@user-zi5mk3ks9f]

this channel teach me more then my school........

[@gicardee6756]

Apparently, not enough. Its "than" when comparing. While "then" is for sequence of events.

[@crafterfairooz122]

That X particle could be the Dark matter that higs particle decayed so fast & turned into invisible undetected Dark particles.

[@ozymandiasnullifidian5590]

I can't understand how those particles that are made of quark and anti-quark can exist, I thought that such particles, like quark and antiquark, will annihilate each other...

[@optimuseprime7887]

Usually yes, and some are unstable. But, the strong force is keeping them apart from each other, although the distance between them is insanely small, they still aren't in physical contact, so no annihilation.

[@ozymandiasnullifidian5590]

@@optimuseprime7887 I see... so, those are matter-antimatter particles, I thought that was what I don't understand, that both are matter particles, but for some reason, it is called antiquark... So they can't get in touch... but, the strong force is a force of attraction? Or it can act as a deflection force too? Sorry if I make mistakes English is not my native language...

[@ozymandiasnullifidian5590]

@@optimuseprime7887 And, if you can explain to me, I mean if you know, I don't understand why pulsars, neutron stars are made just of neutrons? Electrons are pushed in protons and they react somehow and the product is a neutron?

[@miguelcp236]

@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 they can’t get in touch because of the color force, which prevents them from separating but also from touching

[@ozymandiasnullifidian5590]

@@miguelcp236 Color force? I am just an amateur, I don't know what color force is, but I understand that if they can't get in touch there is no annihilation.

[@philcoombes2538]

A thought...the collisions are occurring between particles travelling at an appreciable fraction of c (although not quite the 0.99999999999999999999c that they got protons up to)...so the collision fragments must presumable be also...does relativistic time dilation increase the "lifetimes" of these before they decay, & thus make them easier to detect...?

[@chdata]

When will they find Y particle?

[@Captain.AmericaV1]

*Quark* .... "Wasn't me, honest. I've been on Ds9 the whole time!!"

[@abeeryassin5067]

Amazing work!!!!

[@sinistan1002]

now what? particle y and z of course

[@nebulous962]

intresting🙂

[@RandomLamchops]

Looks like they’re not far from creating a mini-verse like the one in Rick n Morty

[@kataseiko]

5:40 Can we call if "Joulian" if ever? You know, because of the energy that's in there?

[@ninjacj2]

I think for sure a qg plasma due to our knowledge of solid state physics

[@emanuelpetre5491]

didn’t they find the pentaquark some time ago and it turned up to be nothing

[@stevechance150]

Q: Now what? A: Search for particle Y.

[@ep5acg]

Julian, how much energy to cause vacuum decay? Can we reach it?

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

If we will we will be dead as vaccum decay will expand at speed of light eliminating everything

[@Ezekiel903]

sometimes i think, we have to study our tiniest particle and we will understand the universe much better then by study stars or black holes! maybe we will find even tinier particle

[@danielscarbrough4363]

YUP! That's what they do at the COLLIDER, looks like we could go to infinity in either direction

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@danielscarbrough4363 cool black holes maybe are made of Bose Einstein condensate it's properties are similar to what black holes have

[@kataseiko]

When you take into account how much energy and matter was condensed in that quark-gluon-plasma at the beginning of the universe, I dare say that it took a bit longer than a tiny fraction of a second. After all, time dilation is a thing..

[@bdorocks2]

Locally to the plasma, wouldn't time seem to move normally? Or conversely, did time exist before matter? I thought the energetic plasma at the beginning of the universe wasn't technically matter yet.

[@kataseiko]

@@bdorocks2 It would still have mass. If you consider that you can focus enough light into a set area of space to create a "Kugelblitz" black hole because of E=mc²..

[@bdorocks2]

@@kataseiko Thanks for the reply! Learned another new mind blowing thing.

[@kato_dsrdr]

The hadron collider baffles me. It's the biggest science equipment we have but it's made for experiments on smallest things in the universe..

[@DB-MH11]

I am no expert… but I suggest scientists should now look for particles Y & Z

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

They maybe called it x paricle as one of the scientist watched x men

[@rickseiden1]

"Does it even matter at that point?" Yes, it does. 2 trillion degrees Celsius is 3.6 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. There's always a big difference between the two, so units do matter there. Now, between Celsius and Kelvin, it doesn't matter at that point because 2,000,000,000,000 degrees Celsius is 2,000,000,000,273.15 degrees Kelvin.

[@Boogaboioringale]

Exactly.

[@MrVictorywins]

Music is a little distracting

[@austinjohnson4626]

They should smash some gold particles together and see what happens may not take a lot Although it could take a lot more than I think but I'm sure even 1 or 2 collisions would be very beneficial

[@gabrieltorrez6731]

Pentaquarks have also been observed

[@thstroyur]

With _tiny_ significance, according to the 2018 PDG booklet

[@michaelmayhem350]

Now we just need to find planet X

[@Novadababy]

It’s prolly around the x o planet 😂

[@juanzero5398]

LHC, the last headbutt collision?

[@RC404]

I knew the power puff girls were real.

[@chrissscottt]

Interesting but there's quite a difference between 2 trillion and 3.6 trillion degrees fahrenheit.

[@cheapmovies25]

Wouldn't it be crazy if they made a mini universe

[@onbored9627]

it wouldn't?

[@scientistx5717]

Well back to drawing board it is

[@hide_and_go_sikh]

Is smashing protons together at a very high speed the same as smashing protons together at a very intense pressure such as inside a black hole?

[@thanus6636]

No, this is because a black hole is at an infinite density, and these protons are being smashed together at a measurable speed. Hope this helps.

[@Virtualmassslave]

hi how quark and anti quark make stable pairs? 1:11 what force is changing the direction of the split particles once they split? spin? magnetic field? statistics? 1:31 and every particle slide ever ... I assume you can watch such phenomena in the dialed enough

[@physifacts]

Matter and antimatter annihilate only with their own particles. Like a positron will annihilate only with an electron and not with any quarks. Similarly, an up quark will not annihilate with an anti down quark and so on. So they form stable particles in the same way all other particles form, via strong interactions.

[@Virtualmassslave]

@@physifacts thanks! and the "odd" trajectory?

[@Virtualmassslave]

@@physifacts air pressure? spin (not Qspin, like a football)? Qspin? magnetic or other field? statistics?

[@Virtualmassslave]

aether? ;)

[@SingleMaltBuckeye]

Chaos for now. I'm sure these ai machines can do the math and possibly find patterns but I doubt it. Moreso to predict what direction they won't go.

[@markhuebner7580]

Sounds like mesons consist of a quark and anti-quark pair. What keeps the matter and anti-matter combination from annihilating?

[@XEinstein]

Mesons are unstable and decay in the order of nanoseconds.

[@markhuebner7580]

@@XEinstein How do they last so long?

[@physifacts]

Matter and antimatter annihilate only with their own counterparts. For example, a positron will not annihilate with a quark. Similarly, up quarks don't/can't annihilate with anti strange quarks. They just appear as normal particles to each other and combine stably like any other. I have a video on my channel about this, that I animated myself and I think you could check it out, if you want to.

[@markhuebner7580]

@@physifacts THANKS! Watching now!

[@deadpianist7494]

i peed by reading the title

[@BiasFreeTV]

E8 lattice theory just got that much stronger

[@castonyoung7514]

How so?

[@daryldixon5587]

Uh, no actually it didn’t.

[@SingleMaltBuckeye]

Uhh not really. Quite the opposite if anything.

[@jintarokensei3308]

Now we move onto particle Z, obviously.

[@normad88]

Time to make chemical x and then The Powerpuff Girls!

[@deathbreach3448]

Sooo Higgs Boson was described to hold space time within it.. is that true? If so that means we can create a warp drive!

[@eternalfrost3294]

LETS GOO, NEW PATCH NOTES 📝

[@archsciontrismegistus4194]

Next they gonna find Dr. Xavior

[@Palladiumavoid]

Now name it satan particle

[@LH-nd9qg]

Drink every time you hear "we think"

[@josephkomarniski6442]

I am hoping that it is neither but something new and different that will lead to a new physics.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

Even accidents like that in case of penicillin always moves science ahead whatever that particle is its exciting lhc still giving nice results after the Higgs boson discovery

[@ykiruthik6482]

As quark gluon plasma also exist in neutron stars , does that mean they also have x particles?

[@tewog6285]

Maybe probably

[@Boogaboioringale]

Quark - plasma (if they exist) in neutron stars reach a temperature of 1 trillion degrees. The LHC experiment produced a temp of 2 trillion ( twice the amount). It’s possible that tetraquarks exist but as always, more data from neutron stars and LHC will be required.

[@mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573]

Not necessarily but it DOES mean that we all should remember to donate quark gluon plasma to save lives! Also No, not x particle but x chromosectionals! I mean common people, woke up!

[@Boogaboioringale]

Mayhem Discord & Chaos, Oh my! : I’m officially discombobulated

[@owlredshift]

Sure

[@MrLittlecat123]

I finally found the X in all mother of equation

[@JakeFromSedrowoolley]

I think it'll be a proton rich, positively charged electron, double-double muon bond, quickly decaying into a Tau neutrino and quicker still, decaying a second time into a single-triple bonded negatively charged proton (an anti-ton?) Neutral electron neutrino quasi particle.

[@gabrieleduardo2416]

Could you open a channel in Spanish Mexico? Please(I don't know English, I'm using the translator for this)

[@sullivanbell2397]

YOOO FINALLY

[@lifeinru]

Very informative video but the music is so offputting.

[@tetrodotoxin3863]

Why don't they use gold ions?

[@sandeepbansal9555]

Why is temperature that high and how could LHC handle that extreme temperatures?

[@physifacts]

Temperature and heat are different things. Even though the temperature reaches that high, because it is ONLY a very very few particles with very low mass, it has a very low amount of heat, relatively. Heat is what's actually causing the damage and that is why no actual damage is caused. I have a video that I animated myself from scratch on my channel and I think you would benefit from that video and could check it out, if you want to.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

*_Well.. I think they now have to find particle 'y'_* :P

[@theworldaccordingtoscott7612]

To creater. What would happen if you collided uranium?

[@abyssoftus]

tetraquark.

[@ClowenHG]

Is it possible that quarks are compressed under normal conditions, and that this is a single quark without those pressures?

[@MrWildbill]

Quarks can't be compressed any closer than getting next to each other, the Pauli Exclusion Principal (no two parts of matter can occupy the same space at the same time) does not allow them to be compressed into each other. Additionally, while gluons hold quarks together, they also strongly repel quarks that approach each other.

[@xxportalxx.]

You can't separate quarks, it takes as much energy to separate them as it takes to create two, therefore 'separating them' just generates two mesons from the original one (a pair of bound quarks becomes two bound pairs).

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@xxportalxx. meaning pretty much impossible to separate them

[@thej3799]

@@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 impossible to keep them separate. maybe. it makes sense. because it's happening at a level where perhaps quantized spacetime comes into effect on the experiment. normally, I suppose you could say when you look at things this close, it get's fuzzy, because statistically, it could go in several ways. we are basically looking as close to a horizon to the future as we can, we can't look into the future. so you cna't separate them, too close to the horizon.

[@rustyshackleford1964]

My guess is their next goal is to discover particle y

[@Jr-fm2ye]

Then particle z then maybe we’ll get a pokeball

[@dutchgrateful1541]

This is why A.I can actually take a breath

[@september1683]

It is clear, the X-particle seems somehow related to X-rays :-)

[@ericmcdonald9803]

lol, no. x rays are energetic photons, or "rays" of light. the X particle, as its name suggests is a particle (which scientists at the LHC think consist of either a compact tetraquark, made of 4 valence quarks, or an entirely new kind of molecule made from two loosely bound mesons, which have a mass in b/w an electron and a proton).

[@physifacts]

X rays were called X rays, becuase the scientists didn't know which rays they were and hence called them X rays. These X particles are named so again, cause scientists don't know what these particles are for sure. They ain't related in any way

[@september1683]

@@physifacts - Absolutely correct!

[@brianegendorf2023]

I heard particle physicists have a really quarky sense of humor.

[@Hundert1]

Now get out there and build ultra modern ultra high tech aquatics/ multi sport recreational centers globally so every single human being can enjoy an active, healthy, fun filled, happy lifestyle. 😉

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@hereticpariah6_66]

They've found _Particle X,_ huh? Obviously, it's time to create.... . . . . . *THE POWERPUFF GIRLS!*

[@Lukeinnature]

Dang someone call Samus !

[@10-OSwords]

Dark energy was just the X particles vs. Cigarette Smoking particles this whole time.

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

degrees Kelvin it is

[@psionx1]

what if both exist in a state of quantam superpositin.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

It could its size is similar to that of quantum particles

[@joecaves6235]

Mojo Jojo doesn't want the Powerpuff girls to know about this.

[@wasifulalam1393]

that x particle is probably like electron but can only exist in extreme temperature.....

[@onbored9627]

Thank you doctor. Hopefully this finding of yours gets published soon.

[@wasifulalam1393]

@@onbored9627 playing a guessing game.........what do you think " like electron" means here

[@onbored9627]

@@wasifulalam1393 No idea, you’re the doctor.

[@vishalgaikwad2514]

actually that are VERY MANY 😄

[@victorhernandez2273]

5 mil scribbers, but 283k views?