The Modern Understanding of the Atom with Professor Brian Cox

Before we release the first of our series of short documentaries we shot out at CERN earlier this year with Professor Lucie Green, let's dive back into the archive of The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome so you can make sure you're up to speed on particle physics and the Higgs Boson.

We shot this with our regular Cosmic Shambles contributor Professor Brian Cox right before the discovery of the Higgs Boson was made official by CERN.

[Sock]

thank god for humble intellectuals like Brian who can turn such vastly complicated ideas into simple explanations

[Aaron]

"I would love to be wrong"

_That_ is what makes science... :-)

[nrosko]

This is a brilliant explanation of the standard model.

[DeathValleyDazed]

Thanks for the vid that brings my awareness of the current standard atom up to date. Brian explains the subject matter so clearly and consciously.

[SilentAdventurer]

It would be nice very to get an updated version of this talk. A lot has changed since 2013

[usmcfutball]

Am currently reading and thoroughly enjoying "The Quantum Universe". Give 'em hell, Professor Cox! Cheers!

[chriswilliams]

".. and that's it!" he says. If modern science has taught us anything, it is that the harder we look, the more we find.
The current model, nicely explained by Brian Cox, fits the facts better than any previous model but I can't help thinking that the next 50 years will bring revolutionary new discoveries.

[Shahidkhan-qjcy]

This is guy is such an icon. One of my fav science communicators

[scottanderson]

It’s good to see Brian Cox did something productive with his life after retiring from the NFL

[ArchFundy]

His ability to make such complicated stuff, semi understandable to a lay person like myself reminds me of Richard Feynman. I like his style.

[jeremytravis]

That was completely over my head. I wish I understood it.

[phonotical]

You need to add a blur outline to your chromatic removal layer

[iansmith]

Has anyone got a strange quark, I need one swap for 2 higgs bosons. Then I'll have the set.

[paulmobleyscience]

Speaking of physics, the inverse square law doesn't apply to extended sources of radiation so how can a geiger counter calibrated using this formula be used now with Fukushima on the surface of our planet?

[MePeterNicholls]

20bn neutrinos passing through my head every second... no wonder I get so many headaches.

[DaveWhoa]

we'll soon be able to clone Brian Cox and put one in every classroom

[bigbee]

The Higgs field is a theoretical idea, right? I've heard the formation of matter from energy after the Big Bang as "freezing out of matter". I thought that perhaps particles of matter (and antimatter) can bud off or separate from the wave crests and troughs. Is this being considered theoretically?

[Gjallarprawn]

he is a very talented individual, he used to be the keyboard player for a group called D-ream

[foxdoc]

But which particle carries the gravity force??

[jeffreyrivers]

I like how they still talk out if their asses about atoms