Professor Brian Cox talks about the discovery of Higgs Boson #particlephysics

[MrDsfi]

"I once saw him derive a particle at a bar with a pencil.. with a fucking pencil"

[EntoSanto]

I remember Peter Higgs crying when they announced the discovery of that particle. I cannot fathom what he was feeling at that moment. Imagine that your life work turns out to be true and you live to see it.

[kennethschweighardt]

Brian is amazing. He is definitely fulfilling his calling.

[JohannRosario]

And he won the Nobel Prize in physics. That says it all.

[MegaCyrik]

Give it a few more years and the flathearthers will argue the accelerator is not round but straight.

[annakeye]

I will never forget seeing Peter Higgs wiping away tears when the Higgs particle was made real. I can only imagine the range of emotions he must've felt.

[justlucky]

I learned a lot about the LHC while machining parts for the project years ago. Mostly ultra high vacuum chambers and related components. Got to work with same crazy materials and learn lots of new stuff. Fun times.

[ngcastronerd]

Being able to build predictive models is the real strenght of the scientific method.

[jakublizon]

Electroweak theory was such an amazing achievement.

[Dawn_Aramoana]

The greatest gift. Having your predictions come true in your lifetime.

[ronnasteele]

I took an interest in Cern 7 years ago. I've heard some of your lectures beautiful bringing. TY Blessings

[dibakormandal]

Satyendra Nath Bose, was also part of this theory, who is a Bengali scientist.

[AndresB]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between religion and science. Science makes predictions that can be tested.

[leslielandberg-wbse]

Congratulations on finding the Highs particle! No one understood the monumentality of the achievement but in due course, they will.

[bundiesel]

I was just chatting about how all the information we know today has been gained from the life's work of our past geniuses. A person could spend their entire life perfecting their knowledge of a topic. Then, the next curious geniuse uses their entire life perfecting the knowledge even further.

[TheCHILDRENofTV]

What does all that mean?
What is the experiment for?

[TURBOMIKEIFY]

I just wish Fermilab didn’t discontinue the Tevatron. I’ll always Stan for it over the LHC (personal bias being a proud American/Illinoisan). I’d drive by Fermilab every day to go to work. I no longer live in the Aurora/Naperville/Batavia area anymore, but damn did that building look good at night being the tallest building in the general area. I wanna stick my finger in it.

[warpdriveby]

What we need is to build an orbital ring collider, and just skip the terrestrial ones that are toys in comparison! I'm pretty sure we have most of the tech and knowledge down and all of the theoretical understanding needed, its the amount of materials and the energy needed to get those materials into orbit that is the barrier. With cooperation and even 10% of the funds spent globally on militaries yearly we could probably achieve it!😮

[rudolfsykora]

And many great technologies we use in medical care, nMRI, etc

[bernieflanders]

This is why when people think that the word “theory” when used in the colloquial term means the same as a theory in science is just ignorant.