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When the LHC reaches the limits of its discovery potential in 2035, what happens next? John Womersley and Harry Cliff discuss the next mega-collider – the future circular collider.
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The ‘Future Circular Collider’ (FCC) is a plan for a 100km ring-shaped particle accelerator buried underground near Geneva, which would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider in power, reaching collision energies of up to 100 TeV. This formidable machine would allow physicists to seek answers to some of the deepest questions about our universe including the nature of dark matter, the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe, and whether a deeper theory lies beneath the current Standard Model of particle physics.
Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/ea9G1PHpNNY
Dr Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge who works on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Harry’s research is focused on searching for signs of new particles and forces beyond the Standard Model of particle physics by studying the decays of particles known as bottom quarks. For the past seven years he has held a joint fellowship with the Science Museum, where he curated exhibitions on physics and astronomy including a major exhibition about the Large Hadron Collider.
Professor John Womersley is one of the world’s foremost particle physicists and has taken leading roles on projects both in Europe and the United States. John worked at Fermilab near Chicago before becoming a scientific advisor to the Department of Energy in the US. He returned to the UK in 2005 to become Director of the Particle Physics Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at a time when it was building and delivering vital components to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In time John took on a broader role as Director of the Science Programmes Office and was then appointed Chief Executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council in 2011. He is now the Director General of Europe’s next major science project, the European Spallation Source.
These talks and Q&A were recorded and live streamed in the Ri on 7 March 2019.
You can watch the unedited live stream version here: https://youtu.be/rSDE9E_J4-w
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Hi everyone, lots of you have asked us over the years for an update of what's going at the LHC, Cern and particle physics in general these days, so we invited Helen Czerski, Harry Cliff and John Womersley to talk about the new proposed circular collider. We actually even live streamed the talk as it was happening so if you're experiencing déjà vu, that's probably why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSDE9E_J4-w
Is the LHC the World Government?
Looks as they are building a Collider that mirrors our Solar System with the LHC being the moon and the 100 meter across representing the earth..
Great clear layman's description
I want to know more about l h c experiment
Harry Cliff is probably my favorite. The way he goes down to detail is incredible. His explanation and narrative is almost perfect.
In 2017 Harry said confirmation either way of the anomalies of the Lepton Universality would be published within a year or so. 2019 is nearly over and he says in April this year they need a bigger collider to make that confirmation. Cern has confirmed the Higgs but now we are doubting it is a particle. Are there really any particles until we view them? I am not convinced the current physicists are thinking outside the box enough – perhaps introduce consciousness as a constant.
Wtf wheres faradays desk?
@The Royal Institution, as mentioned in other comments below: Is Elon Musk's The Boring Company a relevant candidate for boring the FCC's tunnel at a reduced cost?
So what you're saying is if you don't know what you're talkin about when the word Dark shows up then 95% of what you're talkin about you have no clue what's going on. is that about right?
save some money and skip the next 10 generations of colliders and build one at earth radius already
You should invite influential people like Elon Musk, Richard Branson, etc. for the promotion of FCC.
Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.
I dont understand why physicists continue to push the multiverse when we still have so much left to discover, so much to test. I dont get it.
As gut wrenching as it is to delay fundamental research and wait for answers to important questions, I think there are more urgent areas of research. For a similar amount of time and money we could put up a new network of advanced satellites to study geosciences and have some money left over to send more probes to neighboring planets, more deep earth and deep ice studies, biological studies of climate changes, and more comprehensive ground based weather radar networks.
He meant 52:20 "gateway drug", not entry drug.
Upgrade to what? What about putting that money in people? Instead of a huge peeping Tom machine? The world is screaming and you guys are smashing particles in the dark in hope to find the God Particle. Find it in your heart you idiots 🤷♂️
im sencing a serious lie , dosen't the coefficient of linear expansion say an object at absolute zero shrink to 0 length ?
So the second guy is here to openly manipulate you into wanting another waste of money.
Since particles are to be to be understood as blips in fields which exist throughout the universe, does this lead to a theory regarding the existence of quantum entanglement?
cern is going to blowup in 2021 and its gonna take out geneva with it.
He talks to fast. I cant hang
love the voice and the fire in the words that are said. well done!. btw nice beard