Whats the smallest thing in the universe? - Jonathan Butterworth

Whats the smallest thing in the universe? - Jonathan Butterworth with tags ted, ted-ed, ted ed, teded, ted education, jonathan butterworth, nick hilditch, standard model, physics, particle physics

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/tededView full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-jonathan-butterworthIf you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up? Could you keep on going forever? Or would you eventually find a set of indivisible building blocks out of which everything is made? Jonathan Butterworth explains the Standard Model theory and how it helps us understand the world we live in.Lesson by Jonathan Butterworth, directed by Nick Hilditch. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Jennifer Kurkoski, phkphk12321, Arlene Weston, Mehmet Yusuf Ertekin, Ten Cha, Les Howard, Kevin O'Leary, Francisco Leos, Robert Patrick, Jorge, Marcus Appelbaum, Alan Wilder, Amin Talaei, Mohamed Elsayed, Angel Pantoja, Eimann P. Evarola, Claire Ousey, Carlos H. Costa, Tariq Keblaoui, Bela Namyslik, Nick Johnson, Won Jang, Johnnie Graham, Junjie Huang, Harshita Jagdish Sahijwani, Amber Alexander, Yelena Baykova, Laurence McMillan, John C. Vesey, Karmi Nguyen, Chung Wah Gnapp, Andrew Sprott, Jane White, Ayan Doss, BRENDAN NEALE, Lawrence Teh Swee Kiang, Alex Pierce, Nick Cozby, Jeffrey Segrest, Anthony Arcis, Ugur Doga Sezgin, Kathryn Vacha, Allyson Martin, Srinivasa C Pasumarthi, , Ann Marie Reus, Nishant Suneja, Javier Lara Rosado, Jerry Yang and Shubham Arora.