What is all the stuff in the universe made of?
And, for that matter, (pardon the pun) what keeps everything moving, burning, sticking together, blowing apart?
The answer is to be found in the hodgepodge assortment known as the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
On this episode of Huh? Science Explained, Evrim Yazgin takes us through the ins and outs of what runs the universe.
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Originally published by Cosmos as What is all the stuff in the universe made of?
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