The world's most complicated machine

The world's most complicated machine

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The Large Hadron Collider

An introduction to this album 

 . 1min 21sec
The re-launch of the LHC

An explosion in the beam tunnel caused a major setback. Accelerator scientists examine what went wrong and outline how the beam gathers speed, ready for collision 

 . 9min 44sec

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Hunting for the Higgs
Linear Digressions

Machine learning and particle physics go together like peanut butter and jelly--but this is a relatively new development. For many decades, physicists looked through their fairly large datasets using the laws of physics to guide their exploration; that tradition continues today, ...  Afficher plus

 . 10min 16sec
The mysterious particles of physics, part 1
Discovery

The machine that discovered the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to restart after a massive upgrade, to dig deeper into the heart of matter and the nature of the Universe.Roland Pease returns to CERN’s 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dug deeper under the Swiss-French bo ...  Afficher plus

 . 30min 11sec
65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)
Why This Universe?

Special guest Cari Cesarotti tells us why so many particle physicists are itching to build a whole new type of particle collider.

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 . 42min 18sec
Will we ever know what the universe is made of?
CrowdScience

We are all made of particles – but what are particles made of? It’s a question that’s been perplexing scientists for centuries - for so long, in fact, that listener Doug in Canada wants to know if there’s a limit to how much they can ever discover. CrowdScience heads out to CERN, ...  Afficher plus

 . 35min 25sec