Tested at CERN: How The ATLAS Experiment Works

We chat with engineers at the ATLAS experiment at CERN to learn about the construction of particle detectors, how they work, and why they need giant 200-ton magnets. Super magnets, even.

[Tonjevic]

Very glad this one was more technical! Hoping for more from CERN.

[NathanaelFisher]

Love these segments! Not trying to be mean or anything but would it be possible to have subtitles for some of the interviewees?

[strongforce]

WOW. When you see videos, and achievements like this, you can not help but admire the potential of mankind, but then you watch the news and they are to busy covering Kanye's baby's name to give this wonderful machine two minutes of their time sadness returns to my heart.

[heynando]

U PRESSED THE RED awesome footage, great information, keep it up!

[ProxyMohawk]

The world is not yet ready for a force as powerful as Jamie Hyneman with a supermagnet.
I'd still like to see what he'd do with one.

[Kramerfuckthis]

Nice work! pity your cameras couldn't get the scale real well. With the time lapse footage that place is huge!

[affinityforanime]

See if you can take one of those magnets home as a souvenir for Jamie.

[FFGGE]

how much current does cern draw on a daily basis, and what power grid supplies it? who operates that grid?

[mckennr]

Where did you find that out?
where can we get details on that NW side experiment?

[hxed]

Michel Raymond totally looks like Jim's dad from American Pie movies

[vylybk]

Visit the "Technorama" wich is also located in switzerland! It's a fun experience.

[TronBons]

Just crazy.. but what is the end game here? What is this all for?

[RianEffendi]

wonder how long till the magnets explode again

[sync]

If there ever was a Half-Life movie, CERN would be the set.

[The_Osprey]

I think that's a film you saw.... :)

[Apugueiro]

This comment is for the guy that disliked this video: thanks to the CERN you can watch this video and dislike it, brecause CERN was one of the institutions that helped to develop the internet, they needed to share all the data from experiments like this to scientist around the world, and now because of the huge amount of data that the LHC is generating, they are going to develop a new faster internet, called the grid.

[Bendit]

Amazing structure. Amazing machine. Clever humans.
Why is it 100 meters underground?
Why are they wearing helmets?

[reallybigrocks]

they're wearing helmets for the same reason you wear a helmet on a construction site and i guess it's underground because if it were above ground people could sneak in and ruin it or something

[tashiebaebe]

Hi 👋 Common Folk Here - I get the bases but: What will this do for humans? What will it be used to produce? Like is it a power source/faster wifi/weapon/shield???? Honest question 😅

[Myselfsama]

It would have been nice to hear in laymans terms.. what it does, whats it used for, and what are the practical applications that is offers?