#29: Python at the Large Hadron Collider and CERN

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The largest machine ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It's primary goal was the discovery of the Higgs Boson: the fundamental particle which gives all objects mass. The LHC team of 1000's of physicists achieved that goal in 2012 winning the Nobel Prize in physics. Kyle Cranmer is here to share how Python was at the core of this amazing achievement!

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0:00.0	The largest machine ever built is the large Hadron Collider at CERN.
0:04.0	Its primary goal was the discovery of the Higgs boson, the fundamental particle which gives
0:08.8	all objects mass.
0:10.5	The LHC team actually achieved this audacious goal in 2012, winning them the Nobel Prize
0:16.5	in physics in the process.
0:19.2	Today, on Talk Python to me, Kyle Cranmer is here to share how Python was at the core of this
0:24.1	amazing achievement.
0:25.9	This is episode number 29, recorded Thursday, September 24th, 2015.
0:32.9	I'm a first developer in many senses of the word, because I make these applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music.
0:43.3	I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.
0:47.9	In both cases, it's about design patterns.
0:50.9	Anyone can get the job done.
0:52.3	It's the execution that matters.
0:54.0	I have many interests.
0:55.4	Sometimes it can flake.
0:56.9	My creativity can usually...
0:58.4	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the
1:03.5	ecosystem, and the personalities.
1:05.9	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
1:07.5	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
1:09.5	Keep up with the show and listen to past
1:11.1	episodes at talk python.fm and follow the show on Twitter via at Talk Python. This episode is
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