NOVA — S42E11 — Big Bang Machine
2015 · 55 MIN · IMDB 8.0
Overview
On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson, thought to be responsible for giving all the stuff in the universe its mass. Since it was first proposed nearly fifty years ago, the Higgs has been the holy grail of particle physicists: in finding it they validate the "standard model" that underlies all of modern physics and open the door to new discoveries when CERN's giant collider switches on at higher power in 2015.
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00:00:01 NARRATOR: They built the largest, most complex machine in history,
00:02:43 A mystery
00:04:47 This was my generation's Manhattan Project,
00:07:00 But then something changed
00:09:26 interact less strongly and are very lightweight
00:11:36 Gerry Guralnik, Carl R Hagen,
00:13:46 NARRATOR: From dozens of nations,
00:16:18 energetic particles, scattering in all directions,
00:18:23 WILCZEK: This is going to be a hell of a puzzle
00:20:34 by every human being in the history of science
00:23:01 once it was running at full power
00:25:17 enough for you to see any track left behind
00:27:11 with all of the particles that come out of this event,
00:29:21 So after LEP, the next major milestone in the
00:31:24 is able to expand the area that it can exclude the Higgs from
00:34:09 within the collaborations
00:35:53 As a layman I would now say I think we have it
00:38:21 Peter Higgs and Belgian physicist François Englert,
00:40:26 The number of mysteries in the Standard Model is huge,
00:43:22 The Higgs field is the first clue to what broke the symmetry
00:45:34 What are these missing pieces?
00:47:38 and every force particle a matter partner
00:50:00 NARRATOR: Finding the Higgs pushed the LHC to the limit
00:52:26 NARRATOR: The fun has only just begun
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NOVA, season 42, episode 11: Big Bang Machine.
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