174 James Beacham - The Exciting World of Particle Hunters

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🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We talk to James Beacham, particle physicist with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN about what it’s like to hunt for strange new subatomic particles.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Monday, April 10th, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
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0:42.6	Recently, I visited the greatest machine humans have ever built.
0:44.7	Wait, isn't that inside your brain?
0:45.5	No.
0:46.9	No.
0:48.8	Humans didn't build that.
0:50.3	Well, they're working on it.
0:51.8	Yeah, they're working on it.
0:54.0	Elon still has little ways to go. I'm talking about the particle
0:57.0	accelerators as part of CERN. Oh, that thing. Yeah, that mile long series of particle accelerators that
1:06.4	are smashing protons together, most famously the large Hadron Collider, Hadron being a collection of
1:12.6	corks assembled together into a larger particle, which takes those items and smashes them together
1:18.5	at near the speed of light to generate all sorts of particle products and decays and conditions
1:25.6	that simulate almost the exact moment of the Big Bang.
1:29.8	So I've been to a particle accelerator, and isn't it like you go into this thing and there's
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