It has been called a 'Big Bang Machine', but what is the Large Hadron Collider and what do scientists hope it will discover? Presented by Robert Llewellyn, the three video tracks in this album address the science of collisions, the purpose of particle acceleration and the construction of the LHC at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. This cutting edge machine may detect the elusive Higgs boson, and with it reveal the origin of mass, the missing piece in our under ...
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An introduction to this albumDoor The Open University
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At the scene of a vehicle collision, both the physical evidence and the laws of physics, help police establish precisely what happenedDoor The Open University
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Professors Frank Close and Tejinder Virdee explain why physicists smash particles together and what happens in a particle collisionDoor The Open University
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The biggest scientific experiment ever constructed. How will the machine work and what is the holy grail in particle physics today?Door The Open University
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