Smashing Physics - with Jon Butterworth and Brian Cox 

I`m a taxi - driver and a few years ago I took a fella from a small town in North Lincolnshire over to The University of Hull. I aksed him if he`d care to tell me what his business was there, and he told me that he was starting a degree in Physics. He was in his mid to late 20`s - so a more mature student. I asked him how he`d done in A ( Advanced ) Level Physics. I was rather surprised to learn that he`d never studied A Level Physics. I therefore asked him how well he had done in A Level Maths, and he said to me that he`d never studied A Level Maths. I wished him luck. A few months later I picked up the same chap from the same town and took him to the same University. I asked him how the Physics degree was coming along. He replied that he was strtuggling with it - particularly the maths. That lad has my undying respect in giving it a go, and I`d love to hear that he has been successful in his studies.

NEW VIDEO! Jon Butterworth gives an insider's account of life at the Large Hadron Collider, and his take on the search for the Higgs particle, and is joined by Professor Brian Cox for a Q&A.

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Great lecture and impressive questions from younger audience members.

love that children up to speed and asking questions :) :)

This is amazing: I'm 14 and on my mum's account; at school I'm studying the Big Bang theory and the Hadron Collider. You're all wonderful: it's exciting. People below should stop complaining about the breathing -one thing to say and it *should* be how the H-Boson field is such a great discovery and how this is an interesting lecture. I started physics a month ago so I'm just discovering the awesomeness of science :) Learning how Higgs-Boson works and its relationship to the Big Bang and to symmetry/ and bi-poles is amazing science. Thank you.

"An elementary particle is one we haven't broken yet!" - I absolutely love this line!

aw man, poor Brian Cox had to sit on a stair case for that entire Lecture!!! :(

Fun! I actually live just a few bus stop away from the DESY collider in Hamburg :) they offer free tours every first saturday of the month

Fascinating talk. Thanks!!

Great talk, thank you.

Well done Bryan Cox you are great

im so lucky to stumble upon this vid...its better than just watching brian in an interview..🍺

What about that one kids question!? I can't wait to hear his lecture one day.

Great presentation.

He's a researcher and not a public speaker so that fact that I can hear him for 90 minutes is enough to keep the breathing from bothering me. Tho I do wonder how his breathing is now that people are freaking out over the obstensively reached limits of the LHC.

The presentation was a bit scattered and chaotic, but made a few things clearer to me than they were before. The reviews of the book confirmed that it had both qualities as well, so I ordered it before the video was even over.

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A lapel mic might have worked better.

If a gravity field is analogous to the electric, then finding a particle is equivalent to the probability of illuminating the lattice of electron holes in a semiconductor, the opposite use of the principle used in the wave tank demo. Because the shaped spacetime that results in Black Holes and expanded lattice of intergalactic distances is fluid and strongly correlated with the dark energy and matter, leaving the observable phenomena as an outline of the balance in superposition (at "omnidirectional" apogee, or brane/plane) between accelerations to the vanishing point.

I think that Jon has so much to say and to communicate, that he tends to gabble at a gallop. It's clear that he loves his subject and has a certain passion for it. Many other famous physicists were brilliant and passionate as well; but made terrible lecturers. He seemed a little nervous, which didn't help. Even so, a good lecture and much appreciated!

I love them both.

Just listening

Amazing to see the children asking better questions than the adults.

The Feynman diagram works, a high-energy gamma-ray may have no mass, but is equal to it E=MC*2

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons. Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.

27:14 To look inside Quark/Gluon.

Get on with it!

I had to go and find the Al Jezera interview that Mr Butterworth referenced with Professor Fruitcake. If you haven't see it, it's well worth the 25 mins, if you want a laugh :)

You've seen the bump that shows the existence of a particle as forecast by Higgs. Could there be a harmonic of that bump? That is, if you have discovered a 125 GeV bump, could there be one at 250 or 500, and that the Higgs Boson already discovered isn't really the actual particle but a harmonic of the real thing?

Very interesting and very good that you put this up :) But; Butterworth seems to be making quite high breathing noises. I think you should try to filter those out next time, or perhaps give him a different sort of mic. Still, a wonderful video and very interesting- thanks :)

If we spun the LHC up to 99.9% of the speed of light and then smashed it into another particle accelerator, would everything collapse into a single proton?

Brian Cox should debate with Eric Dubay.

it should be called "Whinning Physics"

Good video but geeze that freaking nose whistle annoyed the antimatter out of me

It may be as big as the Circle Line, but is it as useful?

Butterworth is brilliant and presents some great insights and analogies. I particularly loved his description for spontaneous symmetry breaking. On the hand, he is not the most coherent speaker.

so the experiments have caught up with the theories now? will that that make future research "aimless" and just a matter of "more power" and see what happens?

Whats the book he recommends to the read? lazy to listen through the lecture again.

"...Yeah - but Brian, when are D:Ream making a new album ?"

I just have 1 question. Does the number of atoms in the Universe ,stay the same as a billion years ago ? Or can it grow.

No CC for hearing impaired! We are always left out.

you could use E=pc^2, p being the momentum of the particle.

Amazing under use of Brian Cox' presence.

Is there any reason that it is necessary to drive particles in opposite directions before smashing them together? After all, when one side is going at 99.99*n of C, the combined speed according to Einstein’s Special Relativity won’t be any faster than if you just take one racing particle and smash it into a trapped static particle. This could save about half the cost of a future collider.

So is he saying that time is a commodity? And in the transition and that the smashing of these particles prove this because of the lack of mass in the proton. And that time is contained in the Z particle.

i like your openness about this ...... could you not farm the information out to the general public given the right software and let us wade through it .... it may help ... maybe

I love watching these presentations but Jon should maybe slow down a little.

54:20 did he just say we are made of anti matter and not matter? i feel like this is a key point that has not been delved into by too many people

Bored with Qbit, i've moved onto quarks

I wonder if this guy was trying to sell his book at this lecture. *smirk*

24 minutes in and really haven't got anywhere yet. I'll persist but, hopefully he starts giving some useful words soon.

Cool! I made that map! 12:28

I came here today for the maths masterclasses

Point the camera on what's spoken about. Not at speaker talking.

How does the Higgs boson give mass when the Higgs boson only exists for fractions of a second? Or is that because the mass the Higgs boson is responsible for is a field, and as such doesn't exist in nature as a particle?

Higgs field gives matter mass, does dark matter also gain mass from the Higgs field?

I've seen all physicists speaking here used Macbook. Is there any reason???

That kid in the audience is going to create Skynet

Jupiter Saturn and Uranus are fusion power house and sun fission power house.

I really want to buy the book but my financial situation isn't well. Why must college be so expensive?

Jon Butterworth @ 1.5x speed = the next Doctor.

very interesting, could someone help me on clearing up on a issue he discussed? He mentioned that when two protons collide it creates the higgs field, so does this mean were surrounded by a field, and when two protons collide its temporary causing measurable mass in the time its there before disappearing? If I am wrong please correct me, thank you.

But Ireland IS a member of the EU?

ok, maybe i'll buy the book.

Hi

"No magnetic field there, whatsoever". Magnetic early universe confirmed.

I am so sleepy

If you watch from 4:05 on at half speed he sounds super high

Slightly unfortunate the breathing sound coming from his microphone, very distracting,.

1:00:38 Gravity has a porous nature, fundamental particles are only affected by scales relative to themselves. Which is why static electricity attracts dust, scale to scale ratio is 1:1.

The other guys breathing while Brian is doing the introductions is creepy as hell...

do photons in light time travel coz they travel at the speed of light????

A child's question perhaps - but if the Higgs Boson is a reality; then does this posit an anti-Higgs particle/field?

So the molten iron core of the earth is not magnetic then....

Congrats.... "Buy the book", the only thing I remember. Was ist one big Advertisement through Royal Institute? Okay, there is a thing called fundraising and I hope there is a big funding for science connected to this video, but in my books it is a bit too much.

Fascinating lecture, however, Butterworth sounded like 'Wheezy' from Toy Story!

54:20 Wow i'm sure he just made a error @ 54:20 as we are all human and make basic errors at times. But, if Mr Butterworth actually thought we are made from anti-matter at the time. then just wow...he needs to actually read the first chapter again of their physics bible script or needed to attend more rehearsals of this movie 'Smashing Physics'. PS. Please do no't diss Otto E Rossler....he's a good man! Kind Regards. Greg Stewart

0850 "same length as the circle line" What if I don't live in wherever this circle line of yours is? I's call you parochial but that isn't the right word

Jon means Ion in Swedish. Just an fyi.

Don't smash physics. If physics decides to smash you back, it will get difficult

is he right? well, who NOSE?

Yes Jon there is more fans of science than you probably think. The key to unlocking your audience is not less complicated than the cutting edges of science itself. Sadly your method of saying a large number of words to give a small amount of information while interspersed with personal references, crass sales plugs, obscure opinionated tangents and frayed tangential storytelling is really not going broaden that audience. I can't imagine more than family, close friends, colleagues and a small amount of like minded people being able to follow and stay engaged with you. Conserve your energy.... the universe does not, 31;52 that's where you lost me. Carl Sagan is an example of an outstanding communicator. Succinct and interesting information presented with thoughtful precision to a broad audience without dumbing it down too much.

Cox is one of the "publish or perish" popular physicists who has mostly been unhelpful except to his own popularity.

Soo much oof on the buy my book b.s.

you need to "obseverve" an importance of immense proportion with mirrors so that the sentience of the particle can't know its being watched: hint tau ceti institute 👽🙏

dat nose noise tho.

The keyboard player is still allowed in the Royal Institution? What has this world only come to.

Apparently we're all made of anti-matter and not matter. lol. 54:20

god damn it brian, im such a fan of yours, and there you are with a fucking apple computer. too bad time travel to the past is impossible or i would do it just to forget this.

11 minutes in and all he has told us is how good he thinks he is.

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Sweet nose breathings, bro.

You are opening doorways to places, dimensions and beings of which we know nothing about. You are attracting attention the way the atomic bomb did to beings which we know nothing about. The kind of beings that Stephen Hawking warned us about. The could be malevolent and it is well know fact that reality is far more stranger, bizzare and terrifying than anything a science fiction or horror writers might conjure up.

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Not a very good talk IMO.

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