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Particle accelerators aren’t just for studying particle physics. Suzie Sheehy explains how accelerators actually work, highlights her research controlling high power proton beams and imagines what they may be capable of in the future.
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Suzie Sheehy is an Accelerator Physicist at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in the areas of particle physics, accelerator physics and their applications including medical and energy applications.
She is also heavily involved in science outreach and often appears in the media to explain the work of particle physicists and how accelerators work.
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What a great communicator! Wish to hear more from her!
17:08
she caught her slip on 400 mil times a second
Great to see Aussie physicists contributing to great things abroad.
Give Suzie a big budget and make her the face of modern physics. Brian Green,Cox,Tyson,and the rest could use the competition!
so we make antimatter inside people?
the one thing interesting here is that you can charge devices wirelessly.
too bad focused wires are more convinient and available
We could simply build the World's Greatest Linear Accelerator between Texas and California, and then just let 'certain people' think it's a WALL…..(!)
What about Mr Tesla and his coils.
er..17:08……that not 400 times a second, that is 400 MILLION times a second….
3 Generations of Quarks….2 Gens for the two membranes that are M theory, and the third generation is the result of those two membranes colliding….hence your 3 gens of Quarks….
17:04 400 million times per second
Honestly, her voice is gold…her jokes disarming and it makes me feel great every time I hear it.
This woman won the genetic lottery.
Susan Sheehy is further proof that STEM girls rock! We need more of them.
As with the failure of the ball, to try again. Where is the Dark matter?
Are you wondering why is 3 generation of particles? Not two, one or four. Ok I have a simple solution. As we say in Russia "God loves Holy Trinity"
What do you say next atheists? 😀
Great sense of humour.
But are atoms really tiny? Or is it that the universe is just really big?
I want it bigger… if you can bend it, you can stretch it. Make the electron bigger.
I have super powers it’s real I have flash like speed I’ve seen the future if we don’t get trump out of office he will destroy us all,we need all the meta humans that read this and send trump to earth 2 come on guys I know you’ll are out there don’t be scared to show your powers I’m not see you guys in the year 3015 Flash out.
8:30 "Car go"
19:02 – What?! No lightsaber noises? And you call yourself a geek, Suzie?
If this was a 1 electron universe, the accelerator would have flung us around really fast. What if that makes something like a lens? Not only a lens throw fiction and non-fiction.
What an annoying voice she has. Very condescending too.
24:03
crystals made in tube in water to cool?
This is super material. I wish this had been available when i was a kid.
Great
She's such an amazingly beautiful creature and magnificent brain!
this is a great talk, much better than the ri usual. She's not dumbing it down too much and she has a concrete story to tell. On the other hand, it's hard for me to focus on all the details and the overall ideas. But that's not a problem, I can rewatch it. If I were in the auditorium, I would leave frustrated because of my stupidity.
The platter used to spin the demo quadrupole trap is out of balance. The unit is beautifully built so I expect it didn't start that way. With all the smart people in the room I'm sure it can be repaired.
If every action has an equal and opposite reaction why not use something like this in ion thrusters or plasma thruster? Am I being stupid?
Excellent! Very informative and interesting. Thank you RI and Dr. Sheehy.
The analogy of the complex resonances is that your various instruments now become an orchestra and you have to figure out how to make the tubas work with the violins to make music (your desired acceleration without problems) and not noise. You need a Mozart to do this…
Can the Paul trap be compared to the conical scan radar tracker, where you use the low-power null at the exact center of the beam by cocking the power beam slightly off at an angle and rotating the antenna to make this beam rapidly go round the central axis, which can be very small, allowing very tight tracking of a target?