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Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

February 8th, 2010
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www.ted.com “Rock star physicist” Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive complex and describes his part in it — and the vital role it’s going to play in understanding our universe.

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  1. dinkipooxa
    February 8th, 2010 at 03:45 | #1

    @looni3,

    Our future is assured therefore, as long as we discover the “right” things ?

    I wonder what fool of a “non-visionary” wrote this :-

    There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

  2. looni3
    February 8th, 2010 at 04:15 | #2

    There is nothing we could be doing more worthy than discovery.

  3. dinkipooxa
    February 8th, 2010 at 04:24 | #3

    @looni3,

    Well, I’ll avoid the facetious suggestion that they would not be necessary as there are enough trees around here to keep large numbers of dogs in practice for many generations

    It may be surprising if I assure you the will to build cathedrals will never occur to me if I live to be as old as the proverbial Methuselah; nor, if money were no object would I be likely to organise any such occurrence; turn them into flats maybe, because they aren’t likely to be promoting religion at present.

  4. looni3
    February 8th, 2010 at 05:08 | #4

    What do you propose we do instead? Build bigger cathedrals? DIAF

  5. omegavalerius
    February 8th, 2010 at 05:22 | #5

    The correct analogy would be as follows:

    You live in a world which is made of apple pie and the only way to know what an apple pie is made of and how, is to hurl bits of it around and smash them together.

    On a more ironic note I would point out that the Internet which you undoubtedly used to view this video was invented in this very same place and while one can argue whether the Internet is the ultimate futility instrument, it certainly has its advantages.

  6. dinkipooxa
    February 8th, 2010 at 05:57 | #6

    There was once a time when I should have exclaimed “Isn’t that marvellous; look at the size of that; imagine the power !”; and then gaped and pinned my lugs back to catch all the assumed wisdom about particle smashing.

    Imagine if they were pies being hurled around; good way to analyse their makeup ?

    I honestly find the advent of a monument to futility like this absolutely disgusting to behold; and not the domain of any intelligent individual; merely the obsessed.

    May my bonnie dog pee on it.

  7. gmtx12
    February 8th, 2010 at 06:34 | #7

    Love this guy, his BBC documentaries are great, he makes it so interesting and accessible

  8. fuskern
    February 8th, 2010 at 06:46 | #8

    The world would have been a much better place without religion.

  9. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 06:52 | #9

    @sidewaysfcs0718…..lol

  10. sidewaysfcs0718
    February 8th, 2010 at 07:03 | #10

    both of you stop arguing.

    ur both making fools of yourselves.

    christians arent all crazy …they are incorrect …
    catholics arent all murderers …they are all incorrect…

    earth wasnt made in 6 days it appeared in a long process of planetary formation wich is millions of years long …the sun appeared from a molecular cloud ..taking millions of years to form …

    until we find out more we dont assume a GOD made it all….

  11. sidewaysfcs0718
    February 8th, 2010 at 07:15 | #11

    thanks to CERN spending billions of dollar all nuclear powerplants have a more advanced cooling system …thanks to partycle physics we also have x-rays, MRI-s and all the wonderfull medicine present today ..

    this experiment has to discover the higgs boson, the graviton, supersymetric particles and alot more …discovery of any of theese will revolutionise all domains that use partycle physics…medicine, energy , safety ,….

  12. sidewaysfcs0718
    February 8th, 2010 at 08:06 | #12

    “the truth will set u free” is actually one of the FEW quotes i like from religion … ..

  13. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 09:05 | #13

    @hmsrenown who is they?

  14. hmsrenown
    February 8th, 2010 at 09:42 | #14

    “the truth will set you free” is just a simple phrase to make you think less and accept everything they say.

  15. a012345
    February 8th, 2010 at 09:55 | #15

    To be ignorant of religion and its dogma is a blessing.

  16. a012345
    February 8th, 2010 at 10:38 | #16

    Catholics are not Christians? Are you fucking stupid? They’re one of the original and oldest sect of Christianity. If anything, you’re the one that’s not Christian since you only pick and choose what you want to believe.

  17. Razgrits
    February 8th, 2010 at 11:21 | #17

    Really dude? That’s really… eh, entertaining?

  18. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:07 | #18

    @Razgrits It was created in 6 days. He rested on the 7th. Thought you read the Bible.

  19. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 13:00 | #19

    Pearls to the swine I guess

  20. Razgrits
    February 8th, 2010 at 13:36 | #20

    No fool, I’m talking about christians. Orthodox, Catholics, protestants or whatever other name they find to mask their idiocy. I have read the bible, if the answer ‘It was created in seven days’ suits you about the creation of all life, well- it doesn’t suit me. Because I’m not a retard. I’m sure you’d enjoy Edward Current… but for the wrong reason.

  21. MarEoTheScientist
    February 8th, 2010 at 14:20 | #21

    This has nothing to do with religion or anyone’s set of beliefs. This is science and understanding a certain phenomena or answering a question by proposing a hypothesis. From observations data is produced and an analysis of the data is achieved which in turn gives a logical answer based upon the observations made within the laws that govern the physical universe.

  22. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 14:34 | #22

    @Razgrits Your talking about catholics. Catholics are not Christians. Catholics take the word of God and twist it around to fit their agenda. Instead of googling things that deal with Christianity why don’t you read the Holy Bible. I agree with you that this world is not what it appears to be. The truth will set you free when you find out.

  23. Razgrits
    February 8th, 2010 at 14:43 | #23

    @coppertime No- they are called christians. Google ‘holy inquisition’ and see what you find. This world has so much more to it that we might even thing or consider real. Our reality might change the next 200 years. But we will be dead and won’t see it happen because of fucking Christianity creating such a gap in science! Also google ‘Christianity and science’ and look at the first ‘picture’ it finds where it literally shows the gap we had in dark ages and consider what we’d have accomplish.

  24. coppertime
    February 8th, 2010 at 15:39 | #24

    @Razgrits…. I did’nt burn anyone nor care to either. If people burn witches then they are not Christians they are murderers. Christians are not violent people. As for technology being a means of sorcery, no I don’t think that either. Now a large particle collider thats trying to explain how everything was created that cost upward around 10 billion dollars, I think of that as more of a curse. Could’nt that money have been put to better use.

  25. Razgrits
    February 8th, 2010 at 16:27 | #25

    @coppertime You are either a troll or a retard- it can’t be explained in any other way… but if you are really a christian, I feel pity for you. You imbeciles have destroyed the world. Do you know what happened in the dark ages of Christianity? When you burned ‘witches’ at the stake and considered everything scientific to be sorcery? If anyone said that the earth was round they’d chop his head off… if it wasn’t for you, we might have had advanced technology since 1700’s. Really, look it up.

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