What is the smallest particle?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What is the smallest particle of matter? How does radiation affect our bodies? And, how is particle physics useful in our everyday lives?
CrowdScience takes on particle physics questions from listeners all over the world. Marnie Chesterton and Anand Jagatia get help from particle physicists from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and medical physicist Heather Williams.
Presented by Marnie Chesterton and Anand Jagatia Produced by Cathy Edwards, Jen Whyntie and Louisa Field
(Photo: Particle collider, Credit: Getty IMages)
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | Happiness Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
| 0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
| 0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
| 0:25.5 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm just going to reach on top of my wardrobe and take down this is a smoke detector. |
| 0:44.0 | Mmm. |
| 0:46.0 | Battery in the back, push button and holds to test. |
| 0:50.0 | Says test weekly, I've never tested it. |
| 0:52.0 | Shall they test it? |
| 0:53.0 | Only if you've got your fingers in your ears. |
| 0:55.0 | It doesn't work. |
| 1:02.0 | Whoops! |
| 1:03.0 | This is why you test it every week. |
| 1:06.0 | You're listening to crowd science from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:12.0 | That's me, Marnie Chesterton, taking a scathing medical physicist |
| 1:15.8 | with me as I fiddle with my smoke detector. My smoke detector won't work with dead batteries, but it |
| 1:21.7 | also wouldn't work without particle physics. |
| 1:24.9 | In this show we're diving into your particle physics questions from what's the use of particle |
| 1:29.9 | physics sorry for the spoiler but smoke detectors are part of the answer, to what is the smallest |
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