SciShow Space | This Tank of Water Could Change Physics Forever

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Episode Title: This Tank of Water Could Change Physics Forever
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Description: No one has ever conclusively seen a proton turn into other, lighter particles, but fifty million liters of water in Japan might change that and our ideas about subatomic particles forever. Thank you to Jean Descole for the "yotta years" joke! Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- 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, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.quantamagazine.org/no-proton-decay-means-grand-unification-must-wait-20161215/ https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-gut-feeling-about-physics https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03597 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.438 http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/a-brief-history-of-the-grand-unified-theory-of-physics http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/sk/pdecay-e.html https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/beneath-japans-mount-ikeno-is-a-dazzling-particle-detector https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03597 https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0162 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312325 https://physicsworld.com/a/what-is-the-lifetime-of-a-photon/ https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.231802 https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/why-do-particles-decay/most-particles-decay-yet-some-dont/ http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/qrkdec.html https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-beta-decay-in-terms-of-quarks http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/proton.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/delta.html https://home.cern/science/physics/standard-model http://sierra.lbl.gov/~deg/cpep/grand.html ------ Images: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/tankopen2018/photo-e.html https://www.videoblocks.com/video/an-animated-zoom-in-on-a-hydrogen-atom-to-reveal-quarks-at-the-center-hizlil3zgxjiyxvwyt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Model_Feynman_Diagram_Vertices.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E8Petrie.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12656 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/new-version-magical-rain-of-sparkling-orbs-with-light-rays-from-sky-seamless-loop-motion-background-4k-ultra-hd-gold-brown-orange-golden-yellow-bu7fpaedeiyswl4bm


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