LHC: The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (or LHC) is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.  In 2012, scientists used data taken by it to discover the Higgs boson, before pausing operations for upgrades and improvements.  In the spring of 2015, the LHC will return to operations with 163% the energy it had before and with three times as many collisions per second.  It’s essentially a new and improved version of itself.  In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains both some of the absolutely amazing scientific and engineering properties of this modern scientific wonder.

[migfed]

Dr Lincoln you are simply the best!!! Thanks so much for such a brilliant vids.

[passthebutterrobot]

I love it when engineers get the credit they deserve for making extreme science possible. Dr Lincoln, I salute you.

[PoliticalJohn]

I feel really odd, old, and nerdy being so excited about this. GO SCIENCE YEAH!!!!

[cortster]

And some people say science is boring... What do they know, right?

[fermilab]

Get to know the LHC a little better before it restarts.

[Niosus]

Small bit of technical feedback: This video is interlaced, or at least the intro is. Youtube and most other video sites do no interlace uploaded footage which makes animations quite ugly. Try switching from interlaced to progressive scan in your encoding settings to fix it. It'll probably increase the filesize slightly, but the gain in quality is probably worth it.

[kamvelihlebonakele]

precisely, how big/small are the proton beams of the synchroton? like the actual volume..?

[hazethepharmacit]

This thing is going to blow up the earth 😂

[NeonsStyleHD]

Be really cool if the Upgraded LHC can finally define Dark Matter as a known particle.

[teknifix]

The LHC is something I wish I could see first hand.

[ZeusKyriacos]

I hope that one day they will find the thing that will allow humanity to build interstellar ship

[abhishekrr]

I like the way he smiles at the end of every video 😊

[constpegasus]

Any data from the Holometer giving a hint on the holographic theory yet?

[ianprado]

That person seem way too eager to mark up that textbook

[Toocrash]

why isn't, with all that energy involved, the detector getting radioactive a problem, supposedly there are seven detectors, isn't the degredation of unstable isotopes/elements, knocking the detectors to the junkyard?

[rhlogic]

So they've built super powerful magnets. Can we build our own magnets as shield from solar radiation should the earth's magnetic field falter?

[popstars]

all that technology and still cant get rid of the 50hz mains hum :-)

[christopherphillipskeates]

what about loop realitivity farster than light dark mater

[Swoost]

You guys accidentally wrote degrees Kelvin

[SeanRhoadesChristopher]

Going to be one seriously huge electric bill, but for the sake of finding out what Father did to create the platform in which our souls go through "Teenaged" angst (I am speaking metaphorically) is time and money well spent. Why so? Because it can only reenforce the Awe we have for our Creator. My prayers are with you.