What’s the Matter of Everything? Particle Physicist Suzie Sheehy on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#300)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible A vivid account of experiments that changed the course of history, leading to some of the most significant breakthroughs in science. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right) to the race to split open the atom, these brilliant experiments fundamentally changed our lives. Discoveries that have helped us detect the flow of lava deep inside volcanoes, develop life-saving medical techniques like diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy, and create radio, TV, microwaves, smartphones—even the World Wide Web itself. Suzanne Sheehy is an Australian accelerator physicist and is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches graduate-level accelerator physics, and an Associate Professor in Medical Accelerator Physics at The University of Melbourne. Dr. Sheehy designs particle accelerators for applications in areas such as medicine and energy. Her research projects have ranged from the design of new cancer treatment accelerators to building scaled-down particle beam experiments -- answering fundamental questions about the physics of beams beyond the reach of computer simulations. In addition to her career as an experimental scientist, She is an evangelist for physics. Her 2018 TED talk has been viewed over 1.8M times and she has been an expert TV presenter for a number of Discovery Channel shows including four seasons of Impossible Engineering. Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/suzie_sheehy_the_case_for_curiosity_driven_research?language=en twitter.com/suziesheehy Watch the video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Oe3H_w-I-hE Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, there is much more richness and complexity to matter.
0:13.7	I put in inverted commas because most people think of matter
0:16.3	as the stuff in front of us, but muons and positrons
0:18.6	are not in atoms.
0:20.2	So muons, because they travel through rock,
0:22.3	they can travel through large amounts of rock.
0:23.7	You can use them to image the inside of a pyramid.
0:26.5	Then positrons are amazing because you can use radio isotopes that emit positrons
0:31.6	to trace out the functions of the human body.
0:33.8	People went out and found these things almost serendipitously, even the instruments were
0:38.0	invented almost serendipitously, and then today, you know, if I need my thyroid scanned, I go in the hospital and I just don't think twice
0:46.3	about it about, you know, oh, there's a scanner there. Well, look at the backstory of that
0:50.5	scandal is absolutely incredible.
0:56.0	Welcome everyone to this episode of Into the Impossible with Susie Shee,
1:01.0	Accelerator physicist and author of The Matter of Everything,
1:05.8	How Curiosity, Physics, and Improvable Experiments Change the World.
1:12.1	Those of you who are returning listeners know that your host, Brian Keating, is an experimental physicist.
1:18.0	In this episode, we get to understand what that really means, how building instruments and designing experiments can lead to
1:23.7	discoveries that even surprise theorists. Dr. Sheehi personifies our tagline,
1:29.4	always be curious as she advocates for conducting research for the sake of curiosity itself.
1:37.0	You're going to learn why Susie wrote the Manard Everything as her first book,
1:41.0	and how unanticipated discoveries can change the world.
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