Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

http://www.ted.com "Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive complex and describes his part in it -- and the vital role it's going to play in understanding our universe.

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[faferico95]

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[antoniojodar]

Like si viniste por alex

[amh1230]

gotta love all the folks who knock this stuff online... all while using a by-product of cern... the internet.

[JasonMunro13]

pure genius, and to those who think this is a pointless science, get real! no science is pointless!! if you want to have a go at cost etc just look at the military spend of the world...what a waste that is

[drjharri]

Considering the cost of the war in iraq is like a thousand times more expensive, you can go suck it. Knowledge is the tool we use to solve the worlds problems, no matter how obscure it might seem to you.

[ammachi3]

@UrgentUrge This smashing of particles business is just a big kid’s fantasy that has no real significance. So what if they find the Higgs Boson. Wopty f**king doooo….what has that changed? Absolutely nothing…that’s what. There will still be the same amount of pain and suffering in the world, probably more because we choose to spend money on this instead of other things. That is the truth, my friend.

[ammachi3]

@UrgentUrge I was not knocking all of science. I was saying that the LHC is a waste of time, energy & money. Which it is. We could have put the money into creating alternatives energy sources to fossil fuels or better health care.

[UrgentUrge]

@ammachi3 they all study all those things with that, to know all those wether problems go first to the fundamentals,, what we are really made of,, all this these things around us.. 100 years ago germs is just a theory,, but now we all know thers just morte than just bacteria, we all know the atom.. hard to explain in text.. we need this project.. its vital for their study...

[ammachi3]

Come on people, get real. This is just a stupid science people’s ego trip. It has nothing to offer us practically that can alleviate the ills of our world. Thus, it is an obviously morally repulsive waste of money, time & energy. Imagine what could have been achieved if those 10,000 scientists, set their collective minds to mitigating climate change, or creating new energy sources/infrastructure? In short, they should have done something that actually mattered.

[ammachi3]

Oh yeah this is just the greatest thing eve...I bet it will spontaneously solve world hunger and poverty when they find the Higgs Boson...and it will magical suck up all the atmospheric CO2 so that we don’t boil our planet...oh oh...I bet it will give us unlimited energy so that we don’t have to worry about peak oil...oh and it surely will solve the economic collapse that is underway. No I hear you say...Why not? Ohhh...that’s right, because this is a pointless waste of time, energy and money.