The mysterious particles of physics, part 3

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The smaller the thing you look at, the bigger the microscope you need to use. That’s why the circular Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where they discovered the Higgs boson is 27 kilometres long, and its detectors tens of metres across. But to dig deeper still into the secrets of the Universe, they’re already talking about another machine 4 times bigger, to be built by the middle of the century. Roland Pease asks if it’s worth it.

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

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0:00.0	Ever wondered what the world's wealthiest people did to get so ridiculously rich?
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0:11.9	And then we decide if they are actually good, bad or just plain wealthy.
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0:24.6	listen to Good Bad Billionaire with me, Simon Jack, and me, Zingsing.
0:28.4	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.2	A bomb whose creation would tip the scales of global power.
0:36.1	A nuclear physicist who sought to redress the balance.
0:41.5	The bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:45.2	These are two available now.
0:52.5	My deep dives into the mysterious particles of physics for the BBC have taken me
0:57.7	on several journeys deep into the bowels of the earth to see cutting edge experiments.
1:03.3	It was a one minute ride on a speeding lift down to the CMS detector at Surns famous LHC Aton
1:10.1	Smasher where they found the Higgs particle. Seven minutes for the lift to reach the bottom of
1:15.3	Britain's deepest mine where they're waiting for cosmic dark matter to show up.
1:20.2	But here on a building site near Surns main campus, it looked like I had a longer track ahead.
1:26.3	The lift has just been installed and we just have a staircase at the moment.
1:29.9	So we're going down the stairs and how many steps.
1:36.8	I'm running peace and nothing don'ts me.
1:39.5	80 metres descent on bare concrete steps, no big deal.
1:43.6	Especially with Surns Civil Engineer John Osborne as my guide.
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