The Big Bang Machine

00:00:11 13.7 billion years after it all began

00:03:06 You must get asked this all the time. Is there a button? Who's going to press it?

00:05:20 The ancient Chinese, Indian mystics and Christian theologians

00:08:14 by peering further back in time than ever before.

00:11:18 The resulting explosion will be so intense that no-one's quite sure what will happen.

00:14:01 And ever since, we've peeled away the atomic layers.

00:16:40 Eventually get enough data to say we're beginning to see a class of particles...

00:19:49 When scientists talk about beauty in a physical theory, they mean that

00:22:49 how some but not all particles attain mass.

00:25:22 the Higgs particle, the one thing that could prove the theory correct hasn't been found.

00:28:39 into a massive Higgs boson requires the help of a genius.

00:30:53 It's led some to wonder if we know what we're doing.

00:32:48 Here is evidence for a neutrino caught on film.

00:34:44 we'll understand the origin of mass in the universe.

00:36:59 If we don't see it, then it wouldn't help to build a bigger machine and a bigger accelerator.

00:39:50 There's the world of the small, the quantum world

00:41:59 but it allows the sun to shine, so it's incredibly important.

00:44:28 that would work on both planets and particles

00:46:55 can ever be reduced to a single theory.

00:49:13 It's called String Theory.

00:51:22 becomes infinitely strong.

00:53:50 For now, the LHC is as large as it gets

00:56:00 We'll be one step closer to completing our story of creation.

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