What is a period of restlessness for many of us can be turned into a time of reflection and learning from the safety of our homes. What better way to do that than with a healthy diet of physics-themed videos? 1/n
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Let's start with John Ellis. We thought it's time to finally figure out what the Higgs boson is...
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Watch the unlikely story of our most venerable accelerator, from the mouth of our most venerable coworkers ⤵️
🔭Discoveries made during the past 20 years have revealed the impressive diversity of extrasolar planetary systems.
Watch this CERN Colloquium by Michel Mayor, who is co-laureate of the 2019 @NobelPrize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and @DidierQueloz.
"I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe". - Richard Feyman. Let's travel to your universe!
Who remembers the Large Electron-Positron Collider, which was operated by CERN from 1989 to 2000? If you don't, time to get a refresh. It is, after all, the largest electron-positron ever built.
Until we can hop back onto our bikes outside, #StayAtHome. In the meantime, let's cycle back to 2019 when our bold co-worker raced accelerated particles around the LHC.
If you have a training bike at home, you can even pretend #confinement is over...and imagine you are riding inside the LHC! (not quite as steep as Mt Ventoux 😏)
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Ever wonder about the colour of antimatter? Find out more about the light spectrum of antihydrogen here ⤵️
Learn more about the ambitious and accomplished @ALICEexperiment and practice your French with today's video! (English captions available 😉)
With the current situation, works for the #HiLumiLHC are on an extended break. We all look forward to resume this beautiful project. Until then, #StayAtHome!
👁 Sure, a field trip to CERN would have been nicer... But in these exceptional times, a 360° virtual tour of CERN's experiments is the next best thing we can offer.
Today, visit the @CMSExperiment and #StayAtHome! (filmed last year before lockdown)
And this, folks, is how you make #antimatter!
Please don't try this at home.😏
The electric field has its electron, but when it comes to the magnetic field, have you ever heard of a #magneton?
🤔 Where has all the #antimatter gone? If this question prevents you from sleeping at night, rejoice! For the @LHCbExperiment is there to quench your thirst for knowledge.
🛤 Discovering the Higgs particle and field was far from being the end of the journey. Studying its interaction with other particles is crucial to understanding how they acquire mass.
Protons may be in the spotlight at CERN, but neutrons shall not be forgotten. By studying their properties, the #n_TOF can help in dealing with various issues like nuclear waste management or cancer therapy.
Let yourself go, with François Englert's explanation of the Standard Model equation... We didn't understand everything at first either 😏
🌌 If you thought that protons, neutrons and electrons were the only guests in the vast zoo of particles, think again! Today, we're looking at the NA62 experiment, which chases the elusive kaons and their decays into pions.
🖥 "CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute it". The year was 1993 and the code was the World Wide Web.
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