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Discovery

The mysterious particles of physics, part 1

Discovery

BBC

Science

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The machine that discovered the Higgs Boson 10 years ago is about to restart after a massive upgrade, to dig deeper into the heart of matter and the nature of the Universe.

Roland Pease returns to CERN’s 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dug deeper under the Swiss-French border to meet the scientists wondering why the Universe is the way it is. He hears why the Nobel-prize winning discovery of the “Higgs Particle” remains a cornerstone of the current understanding of the nature of matter; why the search for “dark matter” – 25% of the cosmos - is proving to be so hard; and CERN’s plans for an atom smasher 4 times as big to be running by the middle of the century.

Image: CMS Beampipe removal LS2 2019 (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN)

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0:56.6

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1:01.6

Okay, five, four, three, two, one, zero.

1:12.2

Speeding protons injected for the first time into the enormous underground LHC accelerator

1:18.2

beneath the Swiss French border. Big Bang Day had arrived. BBC Radio had cleared the schedules

1:24.9

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1:43.9

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