SciShow: The Particle So Extreme Scientists Called it OMG

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. In 1991, a subatomic particle smashed into Earth's atmosphere traveling faster than anything humans can replicate. It's the most energetic particle detected to date, and maybe even the fastest (except light itself). Astronomers call it the Oh-My-God Particle. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407923010102 http://www.telescopearray.org/index.php/history/the-fly-s-eye-1981-1993 https://www.nature.com/articles/452264b https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/feb/HQ_13-052_FERMI_Supernova.html https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-particle-that-broke-a-cosmic-speed-limit-20150514/ https://phys.org/news/2011-06-oh-my-god-particles.html https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2256 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9410069 https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/ https://www.hep.shef.ac.uk/edaw/PHY206/Site/2012_course_files/phy206rlec5.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/67/9/R03 https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/large-hadron-collider-restarts http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach-faq.htm https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/what-are-active-galactic-nuclei Images https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/bowling-ball-stock-footage/181843053?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/looking-into-space-blue-nebula-starfield-stock-footage/1413902472?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/night-sky-with-stars-above-monument-valley-arizona-royalty-free-image/853882760?phrase=monument+valley+night&adppopup=true https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20186 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10566 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10332 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14170 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/a-journey-of-light-through-space-and-time https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilc_9yr_moll4096.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_77_spiral_galaxy_by_HST.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13578/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20135 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_Centaurus_A_LABOCA.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_87_Hubble_WikiSky.jpg https://home.cern/resources/video/physics/z-e-e-collision-event-animation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MOWn2B4QR5MtzPNku0J_1RnQj_Z5W1hT/view


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