Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the 'Zeptoverse'

Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the'Zeptoverse' An extremely rare matter-decay event opens up new possibilities for researching the physical world on scales 100 billion times smaller than an atom. We still don't know what happens at the scale of the zeptoverse or at even smaller magnitudes, but this discovery may help researchers begin to understand this infinitesimal world. The Large Hadron Collider has been slamming protons together for years. But recently, a proton collision produced an improbable result that is the first step toward exploring the so-called "zeptoverse"--a scale of reality many, many times smaller than an atom. This would be the smallest scale of the physical world ever explored and may defy our expectations of how physics works .