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If we could build a particle collider so large that it stretches around the moon, what physics could we uncover? James Beacham takes us on a tour of particle physics.
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The Large Hadron Collider switched on in 2015 at the highest energy ever, re-creating the conditions of the universe as they were just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and what physicists are learning so far is that our universe seems to be … extremely odd. But to know exactly how odd it is we need to build a bigger collider, to get even closer to the moment of the Big Bang. How big do we need to go? Join particle physicist James Beacham as he explores what we would likely learn from a hadron collider around the moon, such as whether we live in a multiverse — and what this means for society.
James Beacham is a post-doctoral researcher with The Ohio State University, based full-time at CERN, where he is a member of the ATLAS Experiment collaboration, one of the two teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
His research focuses on finding explanations for some of the key unsolved mysteries of the universe, like determining what dark matter is, whether the Higgs boson is standard or not-so-standard, why gravity is so weak compared to the other forces of nature, and whether there are hidden, dark sector forces out there that we’ve yet to uncover in collider experiments.
This talk and Q&A was filmed at the Ri on 27 March 2018.
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First time watching him lecture. Instant fan
Jeff Golblum ripped this man off…. still a fan of both
I don't believe that he should be talking about "whiteness." The bottom line is that most of the gifted people in USA are white. It depends on what you did or are doing with your life. For being so clever and learned they deserve the Nobel Prize. They produce results. Harvard says publish or perish. They don't say we base our decisions on color. Enough with the whiteness. For your white comments I will not be watching more.
It's unfortunate that he decided to make a racist remark. It added absolutely nothing and was jarringly inappropriate.
Let me remind you all, as an example: Rosalind Franklin discovered the structure of DNA. However, James Watson and Francis Crick (2 white males, one of them a declared eugenics supporter) won the Nobel Prize for it. So yes, there was male domination and white domination in science before and it's still strong nowadays and it's good to be reminded about it from time to time.
This was an awful presentation.
After ~9:30, he did that "white male" thing again at ~39:20. (So off, at first I though I misheard these, but then saw the other comments…) WTF is wrong with this guy?! Such a nice, inspiring talk otherwise! I mean there're a bunch of hominid species that couldn't even make it this far… So, how far exactly the guilt and blame should extend (not to mention: in a physics talk…)?
Is the moon's temperature cool enough that we wouldn't have to use liquid helium for cooling to make the necessary superconducters work? There's some cost savings… But, then it is on the moon, which is kinda expensive to get to. I would assume that the only efficient way to build the proposed 11k kilometer circumference collider would be by using a TON of automation (self maintaining and replicating robots, etc)
And what about using an orbital ring instead? Such a ring is something we would probably be building anyway, a couple centuries from now: Space elevators, power generation, and other infrastructure included, and a circumference 4-5 times a moon-ring collider, and no (not much) pesky gravity to account for.
Thoughts?
Talk offers no hint of even back of the envelop calculation on why moon would offer orders of magnitude of benefit over building the same structure here on earth. And without this, why would anyone want to tackle the cost of building it there? Naming moon as the location is basically click bait.
And I also find the political jabs entirely useless. Even worse, dissuade people with different political view on working together on the science.
Be happy with the 170$-million Yearly for LHC CERN…. I mean please tell me really what type of applied sciences and technologies come from knowing what subatomic particles are made of? The only thing that's truly come about is mass memory loss and the Mandela Effect!!! ohh… and america does value scientific curiosity for things like free energy!!! but not 1.9 trillion $'s for an atom smasher on the moon. Dam the longer i listen the more deluded this dude sounds… P.S. I have long hair too.
it was cool up till the last 5min. ugh
People are freaking out more about his comment on 2 white males than the actual content. Its almost as if you don't actually care about the content. I agree, its a dumb comment but get the fuck over it.
Commenting on the conservation bit, the reason why nature cares about that on a more fundamental level is Symmetry.
So Higgs Boson goes to church and the Preacher says "Higs, you can not come here anymore!" Higgs promptly replies, "why without me there would be no mass!" Nice job James Beacham.
ETAR
LOL the guy advocates using the valuation of uber to build an accelerator on the moon. He's totally lost.
I wouldn't mind to try some of the stuff these guys are smoking 😉 But seriously them CERN dudes are actually literally looking for the lower dimensional shadows of higher dimensional events (paraphrasing Plato) and it is even happening in a cave – only difference here the cave dwellers come out to the folks in the 'real world' and are blubbering about another world out there – so funny! In the end we are all in the Matrix which stands for the sum of all the cave systems. Ever so rarely somebody finds that most heavenly cave and ideally he can really bring back the high energy and authentic sunlight to enlighten others and share some of that holy water (compare John 3. and 4. chapter)
we need to leave to moon alone or learn to keep it in orbit and not moving far away, only
Build a bigger one here around the Earth.
why is who discovered it more important than the science it self. Based on all the racial BS being thrown around on this thread the colour of skin is all that matters. Look back in time and you see what skin colour did what. So what was so bad in what he said, other than the truth. You guy's need need to get over the skin colour issue and focus on the science, not who discovered it. Other wise the racial bigotry and racial hatred will win. Get over it and take colour blinders off and stop the hate. Remember it has taken all of humanity to get were we are to day in all fields science and not take the light off the discovery based on the skin colour. Love humanity, love science.
I was pretty excited to listen to this because he was an American. Finally, my country can show the scientific community what we have to offer.
WTF? This is like the Dream Team losing to New Zealand or the Germans losing a war against the French.
It might be cheaper to put a particle collider in LEO, encircling Earth, instead of on the moon. Actually quite possible now, and could probably used to hang internet relays off of, which would pay the bills. Or maybe black holes can be used as ultra-high energy particle accelerators. They generate something like 1,000,000 TeV. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/130
Yes, if the geopolitical system was not controlled by reptiles, there could be a lot of money for other priorities. But it's still not clear that spending huge amounts to collide elementary particles at higher and higher energies is a good investment in any moral or ethical sense.
ets wouldn't allow it
*Tera elevtron-volt
you think you are so smart….but could not figure out that we can never ever go to the moon.
and btw the moon is NOT space its inside our domain. (science confirmed it in 2019) LOL!
you silly goose.
Tax payers will buy into this when pigs fly!!! Its nice to know we still have creative dreamers though.
after the 3rd feminism comment i was done. right or wrong this is not the lecture to have that discussion. i will be skipping any future videos of his
This has all been explained many times already, without the self congratulations. You can explain it in as many ways as you want but the issue isn't that we don't get what you're doing, it's that you're still explaining the same thing to the people who fund the research.
I wonder if it would be easier to build as a space station at a Lagrange point, rather than buried on the moon.
Interesting to see that the RI supports open racism in their lectures.
Off topic but a friend of mine who works at the LHC says nobody knows who the bloke in the yellow hat standing under the ATLAS detector is.
Boo for the white male BS
Liberalism destroys anything it touches. Now RI too? Jeesh, just talk science man, You may be a great scientist but that does not necessarily make you an expert in other areas.
"Lone white male"? Intersectional evil white men patriarchy bull invading science?
I don't think there has to be multiverse. We already have time. By that I mean if there were any other values for the mass of the Higgs bozon, but at which the universe would crash basically, that could create another universe with different values, if they don't work out well, rinse and repeat. Inevitably our universe came into existence, and we maybe exist until a point at which something changes to a critical level and there goes our universe collapse, then again a different one gets created. Or maybe it just won't ever collapse, and we got lucky to have born in a stable universe. Anyhow you look at it, our existence, in our universe was inevitable. Everything is just the question of when
Nice try, James Veitch. The long hair and American accent aren't fooling anyone…
It kinda amuses me that he describes Particle spin as "Arcane"
the moment someone mentions white male, I'm out.
This guy is like a love child from Geoff Goldbloom and Woody Allen.
I want to know what a POC discovered the same year the Higgs Boson was prooved that should have out shadowed the discovery of the field that gives all matter mass. Im just wondering why the fact that the Nobel Prize went to two white men for a HUGE discovery has to be subtlely appologized for.
Not the best explaining of info at the R.I. He tried tho. That "white males" comment was quite strange… I mean it was two hard working scientists who figured out something and got recognized for it. Why does their race n gender get flagged in a negative sounding way ?
no youtube, i don't want to watch this