In The Hunt for the Higgs, Cern physicist Brian Cox presents his handy guide to quantum mechanics and the subatomic world, the elusive Higgs boson and the biggest machine on Earth -- the Large Hadron Collider or LHC.
At last, the first physicist that explains particle physics in a way that many people can understand. When even the greatest minds do not understand everything about the workings of the universe, at least it's comforting to know that many of us ordinary people can at least now know as much as they do. And it's because of those few scientists and physicists such as Brian Cox that help to open our minds and to understand the workings of the world just a little bit more. Well done Brian. Rock on:))
This is an invitation to see an objective understanding to quantum mechanics! Based on just two postulates: 1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function represents the forward passage of time itself quanta by quanta! 2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!
Going for the nitpicker of the year award here but the photoelectric effect was discovered in the late 19th century and it was in 1905 that the theory of the photoelectric effect was provided that worked - in one of the five papers Einstein wrote that year. Quanta had been postulated five years before by Planck to solve another problem. So although Einstein's theory was a great step forward and in electrodynamics was the first practical application of theory to observation.
Thoroughly enjoyable, my brain had a slight collapse at 05:31 when I thought the guy in the picture was a particle physicist called "Stillwore Phlares".
@thediggernic112 -The LHC is used for various other experiments and will be used for many more years even after this year (when a conclusion about whether the higgs boson exist or not will be presented) -It's not used "once". The way to gain information about these collisions is to perform billions of them, because some events occur extremely seldom, in order to make claims about the experiment that have a sufficient degree of probability (eg extremely unlikely not to be true)
Are you kidding saying Brian is not that smart? He is a leading expert who works on the Higgs experiment. He is one of Britain's leading particle physicist.
The flow of physics so far suggests smaller and smaller components to me,rather than a single "Higgs" particle to explain missing mass. Would love to study this science fulltime,so much to discover.
Could Quantum Physics represent a process of continuous change that we see and feel as the flow of time itself? The future is always uncertain! This theory is based on two postulates 1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ represents the forward passage of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π itself 2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w- function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event
Even if you ignore the ET visitors, there is still well known aspects beyond QED (besides the obvious nuclear reactions). Stuff like dark energy and dark matter. Antigravity effects are observed on galactic scales. From what I gather there is also a problem with gravitational 'constant'. in that it's not constant. and then if you study the visiting ET ships you will find that they can do various kinds of gravity effects as well as sharp space time distortion like bending light to few cm radius.
Like Cox says in this video, if you really want to be sure of something, you have to observe it. The only way to be SURE that you can't become a physicist is to try.
I'm 14, and I LOVE quantum physics. I can get about .1% of pi of it. My uncle started telling me about the colider in Switserland, and the god particle and I was in love ever since.
I think Cox and Jim Alkahlili are the best science presenters currently on T.V. In addition to being working scientists and first rate presenters they have two other outstanding virtues: Neither of them are Michio Kaku and Carl Sagan. Bob Kolker
As others have pointed out, Brian Cox felt a strong *interest* in physics, but not a particularly strong *aptitude*, sort of famously earning a D on his mathematics A-Levels (a low, but passing, grade) and bopping off to be in a couple of pop bands before heading back to university in his late 20's... if someone had told him at age 30 that a decade later he'd be a Top 5 most-recognized science-TV star and OBE, working on cutting-edge physics at the LHC, he might have said the same thing you did.
I believe Aiki is getting at the time period around 800-1100 ad when Afghanistan was literally the most scientifically interested place on Earth, not to mention one of the most travelled to, diverse places. When most of the stars in the sky were named ect ect. After 1100 there was a religious revolution of sorts, which ended the progress.
@LowApe it's actually if you want to make a grilled-cheese sandwich FROM SCRATCH... but yeah, I see you're alluding to Carl Sagan when he said, "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Anyone find it quite interesting that Einstein won Nobel Prize in physics (not for relativity - general or special) for photoelectric effect, and had a distaste for quantum physics? Einstein contributed in a huge way to quantum theory while not focusing on the actual physics of the quantum world.
Agreed and indeed, it's amazing to watch this video now and think: 'Wow this is already outdated' We DO now know that the higgs exists... With all this technology at my disposal I do feel like I'm somehow falling behind on what really matters though at times... (e.g. news about pop singers seems to be overshadowing important things that actually fascinate me about the universe that is expanding around me).
I haven't come across Jim Alkahlili on youtube yet, but I will check him out. Thank you so much for informing me about him. Best wishes good sir. james:)
I think it means you made the right choice to study Biology!. Kidding aside I know where you are coming from. Communicating QM QED ideas is still the preserve of mathematicians and even the best analogies are incomplete. Dont worry if it does seem confusing, thr truth is it is!. QM is counter intuitive and its predictions almost seem too incredible to be true. Wave particle duality at best decribes how our universe works at a quantum level, but not why.....
Im a Biology undergraduate and Ive watched 4-5 videos on quantum physics and im still unclear what it means. Matter and particles misbehaving and not being quantifiable is how it seems?
But you know what - i am grateful for CERN, i am grateful for science - without it, we are nothing. It's just that - you cannot look at the world black and white. The system, whatever one that is prevalent of the times is not necessarily innately righteous.
only use once /facepalm the millions and millions of particles are being slammed together every second in this thing. so even if they only turned it on once, which they won't, that's still a trillion times to data they need from the experiment. Future generations will also need this to show the particles in the standard model to the new line of scientists who will carry on the science from what we learned doing this experiment.
The fundamental piece of christianity is the golden rule. The Bible sure says that Adam and Eve were the first humans, but what do you think people of that time would think if prophets said we were simply a middle stage of evolution, and that the world was vastly larger than Earth? The Bible is a great text that simplifies complex things so that normal people in a non-advanced age can follow. It's a great guide to life with metaphors to explain that you should be good to other people.
You only truly fail when you give up. Just remember that the teacher has never done his job til you get the subject. So keep asking questions til you can answer all the questions.
"Up until this time they explained it as waves"...."up until this time" meaning since Maxwell's equations in 1873...not really that long in the grand scheme of things.
@eskiltubeyeah It's for people like me and my husband, who won't end up studying physics, but because of Brian Cox and other great minds like him, want to know a little bit more. If this was any more complex, I would be thinking 'yeah, he's great, but I've just got lost'
Exploring and discovering the secerts and mysteries of the univeres and jounry to the stars is both a fact and philosophy of the Taoist jade emperor sutras which teaches that we all have an astral connection with the universe and we can all harness and tapp into the hidden latent powers of the universe and microcosmic orbits into our internal body's energy atomic system to acheive universial balance and harmony on the celestial plane
@kinglynx Don't be scared mate, brian cox himself only got D's in his GCSE's, I'm only an average guy and I know nothing about physics really, only the very basic stuff. There are also tons of different jobs involved in the world of physics, and I believe you'll certainly be able to find something to suit you. I think the only thing you absolutely need is the passion for it really like anything else in life, anyone can become good at anything they want. There's no such thing as 'can't' :D
Isaac Asimov did a nice essay on degrees of wrongness. Someone who thinks the world is round is less wrong that someone who thinks it is flat, Someone who thinks it is an oblate spheroid is less wrong than the round world guy. and so on. And you are all wrong. Science finds the equations that fit the observations. If they differ then the equations have to change. Maybe the change is just a refinement, maybe a radical new idea. But always less wrong than before
i am not child i am also scientist Newton said P.E = m ( v ) squared and Einstein said E = m ( c ) squared then what is the greatness of Einstein because both copied the laws of motion and relative motion from al-khawarzumi
I don't think good gcse results are necessarily an indication of ability anyway. Often someone as young as 15-16 is not really going to embrace education, especially young boys who are still quite immature at that stage. I really don't think anyone should be written off over gcse results. Besides, intellect cannot buy ambition and drive..
@boxxer221 Fantastic, you go for it. We desperately need more scientists. Best of luck to you.[BTW I know nothing about science,as i was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris] Slightly different career choice.!!,but even i can appreciate how vital it is.]
portraits of human beings left in the world. It'll be such a colorless dull world in which human artistic expression is forbidden unless it creates patterns.
he set a day to establish total order gamma ray burst is a sign of that day please wait for that day as a human being our responsibility to establish mutual order here in this world
Globally we've spent more on bailing out the banks in the last few years than on Science in all of human history. Now that is something to be genuinely upset about.
Can you please explain to me why and how Islam was going forwards pre-1100 and why and more importantly, how Islam was going backwards in terms of science, after 1100?
We are all ignorant. I am not denying the totallity of the sciences. In fact, I am an advid reader of them. I believe what I am trying to say that God and science are not at odds. And yes it is blissful, till you reach the end of your ignorance.
