The Large Hadron Collider

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2008

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The biggest science experiment in the world - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, will start on September 10th. So this week we peer inside a proton and discover how the LHC works to help scientists in the search for antimatter and the elusive 'Higgs boson'. Plus, we unlock the genetic key to a happy marriage, explore what giant clams can reveal about our ancestors and hear why bats silence themselves to avoid traffic jams. Plus, in Kitchen Science, Ben and Dave get dizzy with the science of spinning! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	It's science,
0:05.0	science, but not as you know it.
0:08.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists with me Chris Smith and also with the wonderful Helen Scales.
0:15.5	Hi Helen, great help you bank, the old team back together again.
0:18.3	Now in the program this week we'll be finding out how scientists have come up with a new vaccine
0:22.2	to fight the flu and hopefully
0:23.8	therefore prevent a pandemic. We'll also be learning how humans were driving animals
0:28.4	to extinction even a hundred thousand years ago and the gene for a happy marriage.
0:33.1	Apparently how voles have shown scientists the chemical basis of monogamy.
0:36.8	That's all on the way, Helen.
0:37.8	Thanks, Chris.
0:38.8	This week we'll also be taking an in-depth look at what's been described as one of the biggest and the most
0:43.2	expensive science experiments ever which is the large Hadron collider or LHC at
0:48.4	Cern in Switzerland. This is the most powerful particle accelerator ever made and it switches on this week.
0:54.3	If everything goes to plan then it should help scientists to recreate the conditions that
0:57.8	occur just after the Big Bang and it might also help shed some light on how we all got here.
1:01.9	Yeah that's absolutely right and later in the program when we'll also be linking up with
1:05.2	the control room at the LHC we'd be asking them how you accelerate something to
1:09.4	almost the speed of light accelerate something else to almost the speed of light,
1:13.0	light, and then bring the two things
1:14.1	onto a collision course with each other.
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