Trip to the Large Hadron Collider

I visited the incredible Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. This is technology on a truly amazing scale! For more (including who's who in the vid) go to my two blog entries about this: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/27/my-excellent-cern-adventure-the...
and
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/22/europe-day-3-cern-the-lhc

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• large
• hadron
• collider
• lhc
• science
• phil
• plait
• brian
• cox
• physics

[POLYJAMZ]

I really enjoyed your video - thanks for sharing.

[will8831]

its professor Brian Cox! 

[grant11102]

@lazychimp123

So far the LHC have discovered a new particle, discovered that the neutrino travels faster than light and has shown us invaluable data regarding how particles behave at a quantum level and how they behave in certain environments within thee LHC.

People like you said the same thing when research was done on the electron and semi conductive material.

But what we learned from that research has changed our world.

For you to say nothing has progressed since 1955 is just stupid.

[grant11102]

@lazychimp123

There are so many things wrong with what you said i can't decide if your just incredibly arrogant or another internet troll voicing an uneducated opinion.

Firstly to say we have made "zero progress in scientific understanding since Einstein" is just retarded.

Your telling me since 1955 scientific progress just stopped?

STFU

Secondly CERN's primary objective is to find the boson but its not its soul purpose.

For example the discovery that was made recently about the neutrino.

[lazychimp123]

This things the biggest waste of money and resources in history..a desperate attempt to prove that our current scientific theories are correct. There is overwhelming evidence that they are false. Even when they find no higgs, they will just come up with more excuses as to why they couldn't find it...This is why our understanding of the world has made zero progress in scientific understanding since Einstein, we're stuck on ideas that he himself said were incomplete and fundamentally false.

[EyeHi]

@ROBLOXChris

understanding fail

[ROBLOXChris]

Wa-Wait a minute...can that machine use time travel? If it can, that'd be amazing! I mean, we could be able to go back in time to stop the 9/11 attacks!

[daskalaka]

Thanks for the upload Phil

[FreddyThaNightmare]

All i could hear was half life soundtracks in my head while watching this

[ImmortalUniverse]

kill button:)

i love it.

[theclint88]

@balakum888 Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 and while it would later serve well during WWII, at the initial time of discovery, there was no application for it. In fact, it wasn't even thought to be viable long enough in the body to counteract any bacteria-based diseases. It would take more than a decade before they realized what they had.

[balakum888]

@theclint88 Dude Penicillin saved the lives of countless soldiers during WWII. Pls get ur facts right