Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 15, 2024. Last week, we learned about the death of Peter Higgs, a physicist and discoverer of the particle that bears his name. The Large Hadron Collider was built to find and describe the particle. Today, we’ll look back at the life of Peter Higgs and his particle. This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Jordan Young BogieNet Stephen Veit Jeanette Wink Siggi Kemmler Andrew Poelstra Brian Cagle David Truog Ed David Gerhard Schwarzer THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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0:00.0	Oh, Oh, A Astronomy cast episode 716 the god particle remembering Peter Higgs
0:55.2	welcome to astronomy cast our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos we
0:58.9	help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of
1:03.8	universe today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute
1:09.4	and the Director of Cosmic Quest., Pamela, how you doing?
1:12.6	I am doing well.
1:15.0	I am still trying to get my sleep back on schedule after having a whole bunch of our
1:21.1	Cosmo Quest community mods come out and hang out during the Eclipse
1:25.6	week and all the events around that.
1:28.5	It was a tremendous event and it was so good to see so many people face to face including some
1:34.2	I had never met in person. At one point we had 14 humans and four spare dogs in
1:41.1	the house during the lead up to the eclipse as everyone was
1:45.0	prepping in.
1:46.0	Your house can absorb that.
1:48.0	It can, although keeping the dogs separated is It was a fascinating game of gates. But we were off last
1:58.0	week because we were enjoying the eclipse and victory for both of us. We both saw totality, clear skies, it was perfect. So yay us.
2:10.0	We did it. We did it. No need to ever travel again for an eclipse.
2:15.0	No way. I want to see more.
2:19.0	But it was amazing. And I think for everybody out there who's listening to this if you did get a chance to see it congratulations if you didn't get a chance to see it the
2:30.4	Cosmic geometry continues and you'll get more chances in the future and some fun travel ideas.
2:37.0	So keep trying out there and yeah, yeah, I'm so glad that we got a chance to see it after 2017.
2:47.0	Yeah, we didn't get a chance to see it.
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