Bill Clinton & the Day Physics Died
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- Wondering why this is in your feed again? Well it involves an absurd story which you can read about here: / 1532725334604451841
There's a hole in Texas, and we've come full circle. This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. Part 3 of 3.
Part 1: • Ronald Reagan & the Bi...
Part 2: • George Bush vomited & ...
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The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Many of the quotes are taken from that book, which used primary interviews and are sourced very extensively. Stuff involving budgets and congress I accessed from the official government websites, including votes on bills and amendments, and inflation calculations were done by myself using an online tool. There are a bunch of other documents I read through such as "The Global Research and Development Landscape and Implications for the Department of Defense", "A TIMELINE OF MAJOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS", "United States nuclear forces, 2019", "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel's Subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics May 1994", "The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers", "Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson", "The Mission by David W Brown", "The God Particle (The Higgs boson) by Leon Lederman".
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Site footage graciously captured by @ohboyfelix on twitter
0:00 The Day Physics Ended
3:11 The Revenge of the C Students
11:09 A Bridge Too Far
21:56 Buried in Waxahachie
31:04 Fewer Ribs, More Fondue
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Credits: Hard Times Come Again No More by the Westerlies
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Hi! Wondering why you're seeing this again? It's because the original was taken down for an absurd reason. See the description for the twitter thread explaining what happened. But just so we're absolutely clear here, please do not seek out the graph guy or contact him. That is not helpful whatsoever. The video is back up and he should be left alone.
If you've made it this far, thank you. I knew this project would be a huge undertaking (6 months of work, and 6 months before that just brainstorming), but I still didn't expect it to get done so soon. If you want to support the channel even further I have a Patreon and a twitter (check the description).
FOOTNOTES CONTAIN SPOILERS, READ AFTER WATCHING.
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FOOTNOTES CONTAIN SPOILERS, READ AFTER WATCHING.
1. The clip where Dale Bumpers is shouting out cost estimates would have been in 1993 US dollars, so basically double what he was saying there to get a rough idea.
2. I’ve seen two slightly different vote counts on the Slattery amendment listed on the official US government website. The first one was 280 to 150 and the second was 280 to 140. The limited information on the government website implies that the Slattery amendment was first voted on in conjunction with some other amendments and that someone requested a dedicated vote on it. The vote totals are basically the same, except with some pro SSC votes simply abstaining the 2nd time.
3. In 1990 there was an amendment attached to the SSC authorization bill that would have guaranteed Texas a full refund if the SSC was cancelled. This amendment did not pass. The matter of Texas getting a refund was contentious for years and it’s miraculous it eventually did get one.
4. I call Johnnnie Bryan Hunt comically Texan, but he was in fact from Arkansas.
5. The luminosity design target for the SSC varies depending on who you ask, anywhere from 10^33 cm^-2 s^-1 to 10^34 (a range with a factor of 10). Either estimate was considered very optimistic, as it would be difficult to actually meet this target because of how the SSC was designed. The magnets in the injection sequence would have had to been optimized individually. The LHC was designed with high luminosity in mind, and even then struggled for may years to reach its target. I think it’s fair to assume the SSC would have struggled even more to meet its target.
6. In the video I show a total of 1232 magnets for the LHC, this is in fact just the number of dipole magnets, i.e. the super strong ones used to bend the particle beams). There are also around 474 quadrupole magnets used to squeeze the beams. In total (counting both superconducting and non-superconducting magnets) the LHC has around 9000 magnets in use.
7. The LHC concept may date as far back as 1977, when former CERN director Sir John Adams discussed the possibility a high energy underground collider.
8. Adjusted for inflation and cost overruns the LHC cost about 8 billion in 2021 US dollars. This is roughly double the money that was actually spent on the SSC.
9. The LHC’s first collisions were on November 23rd 2009 at a paltry 0.9 TeV. In early 2010 they had cranked this up to 7 TeV, over three times higher than the record set by the TeVatron. However because the luminosity of the LHC was still so low the TeVatron had a fighting chance because its luminosity had been carefully calibrated for many years.
10. The max collision energy of hadron colliders are often much much higher than the mass/energy of the particles that are being created, as only a small portion of the total collision actually gets turned into the new particle. So although the LHC was designed to go up to 14 TeV, the detected Higgs mass was only 0.125 TeV, you have to overshoot your target.
that’s cool i didn’t read it but i respect it, good videos bro
You seem to have forgotten to include the actual link to the thread.
Yes, twitter link missing
there's no link to the twitter thread
the link to the thread is missing from the description lol
The fact that an elderly Nobel prize winner had to sell his medal to pay off medical debt is frustrating and heartbreaking. Rest in peace Mr. Lederman.
I saw that as well. I find it so baffling and sad that this is the state America is in. It's such a rich and prosperous country, but the profit only goes to big funds and companies...
@@JohnSmith-gi2oy Yeah, nah. HDI and Quality of living likes to differ.
@@JohnSmith-gi2oy A high gdp does nothing for the thousands of homeless and systemically discriminated in your country.
@@JohnSmith-gi2oy
Discrimination: czcams.com/video/AjQBgBcbOyQ/video.html
Regarding the Homeless: In Germany you get taken care of, and get payed of you loose your job. Being homeless is pretty much a choice. America has no safety net, which is not a problem as long as you're doing fine, but as soon as something happens, everything goes to shit really fast
Not to forget how you call yourself the land of the free and yet you take away women's rights like it's nothing.
Do not get me wrong, there are also a lot of upsides to America, and i have thoroughly enjoyed my visits there, but there a huge problems you guys will have to face someday
@@JohnSmith-gi2oy Bro, how dense are you? You're putting the "lives" of cells that aren't even able to survive on their own above the lives of the mother's, how is that not taking away the mother's rights?
I'm aware the SC didn't ban abortions, but it enabled states to do so.
And yeah, you can argue that everyone has to face discrimination sometimes, but that doesn't change the fact that the White population of America faces less discrimination than every other race or migrants with another nationality. You sound like you excuse racism.
idk a lot about physics, but i do know that manually claiming a graph and destroying piles of work is very cringe
This video has nothing to do with Ninja Gaiden, get outta here.
P.S. that was just a joke, you're great.
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YOO kbash review on physics, let's go??
I've seen multi-million dollar netflix documentaries that don't even have 10% the quality of this series. PLEASE never stop doing these, they're some of the best content on CZcams.
Never agreed more, cunk on earth is gold though, so even Netflix can film something decent when it tries to
Money can't buy passion
@@TheMightyP00tis they however can buy people with passion
@@bakayarou023 That’s bleak.
@@TheMightyP00tisI mean this series kind of proved this wrong
“They announced it on the 4th of July” was the perfect way to end this series. Succinct, comedic, and a little tragic. This is one of the best things on CZcams, and I really hope you’re proud of it, because you absolutely should be.
That ending have me goose bumps. I chuckled. Then felt a sense of shared grief as I sympathised for all the people that must have put so much hope, sweat and passion in this project for decades... and I'm European! This goes to show the quality of this documentary, Bobby took us on an incredible journey, we were there with the super collider through it's harshest hurdles quietly cheering and hoping for a good outcome (I'd forgotten he warned us it wouldn't be one). Even though this represented an important "win" for my European Union, Bobby managed to get me emotionally invested enough that I felt a disappointment at the conclusion. Excellent story telling.
This was a massive consolidation prize for the USA.
Excuse me, *ONE* of the best thing on CZcams?
Would have been kinda cool to play the song 4th of July instrumental but it would probably of gotten claimed and it's also become popular in tiktok so it's less good
He said they *announced it* on the fourth of July, not that they found it then. Very different.
When BobbyBroccoli found out he had been unlawfully struck, and I quote,
“He became non-linear.”
Good one XD
lmao
"They had to scrape him off the ceiling"
@@aldeayeah ok that took a turn I wasn’t expecting lol
@@stevemc01 if you watched the video, you would have expected it
[Guess im typing this again? lol]
43:05 I love how this whole Series ends with a man being crushed by medical debt, truly a touching American story😭
Liking once again your comment
[Guess I'm liking this comment once again]
It's rare that you get to like a comment twice, but I'll gladly take the opportunity!
its such a travesty to see such a great man left abandoned by his society, future generations will mourn us. this is why we need a nationalized healthcare system.
man gets crushed by medical debt, followed up by man getting copyright-claimed because of a graph
Schwitters passed away two weeks ago. Reading through interviews with him from 2021, it's hard not to feel just how strongly he wanted the SSC to succeed, how sure he was that they'd find the Higgs. May he and everyone else rest in peace.
Well now I’m extra depressed.
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It would be very interesting to see a similar behind the scenes narration of the James Webb telescope. It too had a history of cost over-runs and launch delays. Amazing it wasn’t killed as well!
It certainly would be nice to have video series with a happy ending that's for sure!
Defunding Space is really rocking the boat.
@@BobbyBroccoli do a series about CERN. How it was created during Cold War, as a way to consolidate not warfare nuclear research in Europe. The enormous backlash it has received throughout the years. The budget cuts. The LHC running. Higgs. The magnet quench. The electric failure due to a groundhog. The hundreds of articles calling the closure of LHC after Higgs because it served its purpose. It's been 10 years since CERN discovered anything, use the money to fund condensed matter physics. And the the wave of LHCb quark discoveries from late 2021 to mid 2022.
Ooh, what's that/where can I watch it?
@@MajorJakas yeah it's harder to expand capitalism into the quantum realm than it is into space so no surprise
Wow the ending of this series hit me so much harder emotionally than I was expecting. Imagine working for decades of your life towards some goal, have ground broken on it, then just have to shut it down. Brutal.
And then the Europeans passive aggressively twist the knife in the wound.
@@sylviadude1 How could they not though? This entire project was more american supremacism than science. It's raison d'être was one upping CERN.
@@XMysticHerox I mean, Europeans have to find some way to act immature since America is better in almost every way. Good on them for celebrating a loss of a potentially great scientific instrument, I expect nothing else from petty Europeans.
@@Alexander_Grant Except Western Europe is better in most stats but ok.
Also if the US collaborated with the rest of the world we would have had a much greater scientific instrument. So yes I am going to make fun of it.
@@XMysticHerox Just the response I'd expect from people with a little brother attitude. Give up a scientific instrument to stick it to the US! I swear, Europeans are the most ignorant people on the planet.
I almost started sobbing at the last line of this story, where the discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC was announced on the 4th of July. This was a phenomenal series!
I know its probably not, but it feels like an insult. I agree with the sentiment tho, as someone currently studying physics in Switzerland it was insanely interesting and emotionally moving.
Me too, and I'm European. Very well made series indeed.
what broke me is that Leon Lederman had to sell his Nobel medal to pay off his medical debt. America in a nutshell
@@matiastripaldi406 yeah I think the ending lines and the epilogue of what happened to many of the important figures (but especially of what happened to Lederman in particular :'c ) had me pretty emotional. To think so many people-- many of whom will never be known on a bigher scale-- poured so much into this project just to have it implode slowly over the decade was just tragic. From the workers who toiled to build it, the scientists who lobbied for it and the millions of taxpayers that funded it, this documentary really encapsulated all these aspects.
I'm a CS PhD student and an animation industry professional. I'm absolutely floored at the quality of the research, visuals, and storytelling. Thank you so much for making videos!
Id be too if there wasnt such an obvious political bias.
Fastest way to mediocrity is through self fullfillment. Lol
@@ShinzouKatsune What political bias?
@@ShinzouKatsune this was a purely analytical video, man
CS = computer science?
@@nostalji75 Yep
I have a PhD in particle physics and spent several years working at CERN. I just wanted to say, you did an amazing job telling this story and explained the physics concepts very well. I had originally learned of the story from other physicists, who naturally painted the picture more as a story of anti-science politicians and cuts in government spending. It's really interesting to learn of all the failures in the project planning and management, not to mention the arrogance of America trying to undertake the project itself instead of collaborating with CERN. I think it's safe to say the failure of the project was largely over-determined. It's a good lesson for how large-scale science collaborations should be done. Thanks for making this series!
@@shmooveyea that's the funniest shit I've ever read
You have to be joking lol
They actually had surprisingly high politician support for such an abstract field of science.
But in the middle of one of the worst economic crashes in America, it just wasn't the right moment.
@Grace Asher-Creekbird Homestead and isn't it wonderful to learn the workings of His creation
Props to one guy being a clown, and to CZcams for being an entire circus.
In the spirit of algorithmically boosting content: Nice vid!
Feel like I’m getting in on the ground floor here with this channel , you deserve far more subscribers
hi cappy lol
Cappy's brain training.
Go Cappy!
_THIS IS WHERE THE COOL KIDS HANG OUT_
Ayyye another of my favorite channels. And this guy has superb animation. I think it’s made in Blender.
I did not expext to see cappy here 😂
Going up!
This trilogy hit home harder than I thought and it pains me I didn't see it and comment sooner...
I first heard of the SSC as a kid years ago in some book of random knowledge where it was mentioned that the tunnels were abandoned and slowly filling with water and, among other proposals, people considered turning it into a mushroom farm or something. About a decade ago, I stumbled on the project again when photos of scientists who'd taken photos in the abandoned magnet lab came out online and I became interested in seeing if any parts of the tunnels were accessible. It was in the comments of one of these sites where someone who had worked on the project mentioned that the only accessible parts of the tunnels was the LINAC facility. I emailed them a bit and after a wild night of Googling, I found where the LINAC was on Google after finding PDFs of site plans and things. And, as with many things in my life, I intended to do something with this knowledge, but didn't. It sat in the "TO DO" pile of my myriad interests to contact the owners and see if I could take a peak someday. Eventually, the SSC project worked itself into a story setting I and some friends were working on where someone had revived the project. And that was kind of how it sat until last year...
Last year, we decided to head out of town to avoid a hurricane barreling into Louisiana and I decided we'd spend the weekend in Dallas. A lot of folks asked me why on Earth I was driving all the way there, and a non-trivial part of it was because I could drive out to Waxahachie and take a look at places I'd only seen in images and pinned as places on Google Maps. Call it a nerdy pilgrimage, I suppose. On the second day of the trip, I drove out to Waxahachie and walked to sites I'd found in old site plans and stood on top of the sealed off Magnet Delivery Shaft near the MDL... now Magnablend's facility. It was overgrown with grass, but an oval of crushed rock and a dip in the land said where the tunnel was, 200 or so feet down. Out in Palmer, the roads leading to where the detector halls would have been were gated off, but built to handle heavy trucks and looked old, but still solid. On the final day of the trip, I called the owner of the LINAC and (after an understandably awkward exchange boiling down to "Sorry, I swear I'm not a telemarketer, I'm just a socially awkward nerd") they very graciously invited me over to see the inside of the building. The tunnel, I was told, had flooded in a while before in a series of heavy rains, but it was still there.
The image of the long, dimly lit tunnel with a person walking inside at 26:25 in the video is the finished linear accelerator tunnel, taken years ago before it flooded. It was fully completed, with the Low Energy Booster tunnel, 90% completed and sealed off, a little beyond the end of it in the darkness behind what I assume is a concrete wall. A big pit with stairs going down into it where the bottle of hydrogen that would have been used to feed the biggest atom smasher in the world would be behind the photographer leading into it. It was surreal standing there in this enormous, long metal building, next to a one story deep pool of water, with that tunnel RIGHT THERE about 30 feet away. I could cross off a strange bucket list item of getting as close as I could to the tunnels, a wild trip I'd started on years earlier.
Herman Wouk published a book in 2004 called "A Hole in Texas" that featured the project in it, and I'd discovered it early on in my deep dive into this topic. The author's note prefacing the book is brief (less than a page), and gives a very short version of the story you told so well in these videos. It ends with a line that was ringing in my head on my trip to Waxahachie and that echoed when I watched this video... "The sole residue of their miscarried quest for the Higgs boson was a hole in Texas, an enormous abandoned Hole. It's still there."
It's still there... and thank you for telling the story so well so others can go on their own rides learning about it too.
Tragic story, the fact that lederman had to sell his nobel prize had me almost tearing up.
Leaving a comment for engagement, as this was one of the best documentaries I've seen in recent while. You concluded it perfectly, and I was amazed at how interested you got me into failed super collider I had literally never head about before this series. Sorry YT is trash and thanks again for all of your amazing content!
Also engagement comment. I haven't watched more than the first few seconds yet but I look forward to watching the whole thing when I get a chance!
Claiming a whole video over a graph is cringe and unbased.
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I came because CZcams is dumb
Same! Engagement comment
Reply for engagement
Despite the absurd copyright claim, the series still tells an amazing story, one of gargantuan ambition, mismanagement, and the ambition catching up to itself. Thank you for bringing this story to life. And, another bonus: the production methods here can serve as inspiration for people making their own videos, especially ones about similar topics. You have done some fantastic work here with these three videos.
I hope the original had a ton of views because this is criminally underwatched at 65k. Truly exceptional documentary, simply one of the best in science. Well done!
Here to let you know this series is getting more of the recognition it deserves at 200k views now
460k now, still not enough imo but it's much better
508k now!
At 617k now, this series deserves it
I am a physics teacher who loves particle physics, so I knew about the science side, or at least as much as possible not having taken field theory or Lie algebra. But 90% of this series was new to me. I don't know how you managed to make budget discussions and org charts so compelling, but you did it and then some. Bravo!
Unfortunate stuff with the stubborn graph-maker! --Your content is top-notch, and deserves far more attention than it gets. Can't wait for your next project!
It’s not stubbornness. Publishing research and data is a lot of work. It isn’t difficult to ask someone permission to use their stuff that they spent potentially months or years working on (and while a graph doesn’t take months or years to make, the project that the graph is part of does, and a graph or chart can be the representation of all that work).
If someone doesn’t get back to you or says no, you are free to recreate it yourself. Just yoinking someone’s work is lazy and disrespectful.
@@michaelgoldstein8516 They weren't a researcher just some random blogger. And it wasn't cutting edge research. Just the wavelengths of light eg what you find in every physics 101 textbook for more than a century.
Most scientists are happy to share their stuff as long as you credit them.
And if you look at the tweets he did not steal it. He got it from another website which clearly stated it was free to use. That website stole it but there was no way to tell that.
A series finale about a huge project being derailed by bureaucracy and red tape being taken down due to bureaucracy and red tape is oddly poetic... in a tragic sort of way.
Love your stuff! Keep it up!
I’m a bit late to the party but I just want to say that I really like how you show the problem from multiple perspective and explain why certain people made certain decisions. Others would’ve just picked a group to blame all bad decisions on and went „these are the bad ones!“ glad you didn’t do that.
I think you've articulated what I like so much about this content! Being able to explain why certain decisions were made and how events played out, without getting bogged down with 500 pointless characters and uncompelling tangents, is a very difficult line to walk!
And I love how easy it was to keep track of the story and the characters. His use of a different kind of calendar in all of his videos is also invaluable! It really helps keep track of things in my mind.
Except the Illinois anti-collider protesters
@@MadisonRamanamabangbang they fucked it up lol
I just wanted to learn about particles... but here I am with a PhD in physics science and my emotions cannot handle the absurdity of this story about a PARTICLE COLLIDER like wow I cried as much from this as I did at the beginning of Up
BobbyBroccoli, you take so much time and effort to make your interesting and educational videos that always have me pulled in and I can't stop watching! This was an absolute masterpiece and for going through with scripting animation and narrating, this is just incredible. I can't believe your landing this for free, because if anything, you deserve a Nobel prize. Absolutely brilliant job, especially with going through all the files and documents to research everything.
The original graph made me feel so smart, so sure of my understand of reality, so elated: maybe even a little turned on. Without that quick glance I'm left feeling sad and unenergized. It truly was the only reason I watched all 45:09 of the video before. Now I can barely get through 5 minutes before I have to leave youtube with existential dread about how I had spent my time.
What did the graph look like?
@@Connor-jl9gq Divine
wait what happened?
The fact that an image of a graph on a screen for less than half a minute can be grounds to take a video down is very upsetting indeed, much more so that CZcams didn’t notify you, hopefully this comment helps, because your work is downright amazing and I really hope you’ll get the recognition you deserve
I love those rare moments where the youtube algorithm recommends me a channel with long-form content that I actually enjoy. Just binged like 4-5 hours of your content and wasn't bored for a second. This is genuinely top-tier content and criminally underrated
Man it’s really kind of sad that the SSC and a lot of other American colliders died out. I’ve been to Ithaca several times and even been on Cornell campus before, and I had no idea that they had an active particle accelerator at one point. But this series also does a great job explaining exactly what colliders do. Great series
Can't imagine being such a small person that you gotta take down a whole video made with love and clear educational purpose because of a 10s image of your graph. It's disgusting, honestly. Great video Bobby! I'm gonna rewatch the whole thing now!
Time to fall asleep while watching this so the algorithm gets that I watched the whole damn original, and so the watch time is carried over
Sorry about the copyright issue! I've loved this series, even if it's about something I'd never heard of before hand. The effort and care that you've put into this is incredible, and I hope the re upload gets the attention it deserves.
The 10% less war line really hits. Another banger of a video, dude. Thank you for such a fun ride!
It is genuinely incredible that the ordering of the video made it so that by the time i got back to the actual science and they found the particle, I had completely forgotten why it was important due to all the bureaucracy in the middle. Whether this was symbolism or coincidence, super cool series, love your content
This series has been absolutely phenomenal and the amount of effort into presentation and detail constantly blows me away. It's very unfair that you had to take your upload down due to one petty scientist, and I hope the algorithm will be kind to the reupload.
Amazingly well done, The Westerlies soundtrack hits perfectly as the last nail in the coffin of a epic saga. It takes a lot of talent to tell a story we know the ending to and still be able to deliver so much impact. Only thing I would suggest is that the outro could have fit another half dozen or so backstories (Tigner, Schwitters etc.). Really looking forward to where this channel goes next.
As a texas-born senior physics major, the story of the SSC never fails to make me sad :(
I wasn't ready for the credits... spanning 3 videos covering multiple decades of time with countless characters and a rollercoaster ride with a sombre end - When Hard Times Come No More started playing I just started crying.
Masterful video mate...
This whole series was an absolute masterpiece, incredible job
I got second hand frustration reading that twitter thread. This video is a masterpiece. Sucks that we'll never see its true viewcount.
I saw the first part with Reagan in the recommendations and clicked, and now I've watched all 3 parts, and I have to say, what an amazing, high quality documentary. It's amazingly researched and presented (the story progression, the graphs, and everything else), making this complicated story of science and politics interesting the whole time. Even when it could've become tiring, you somehow kept it engaging and interesting. The cherry on top being the ending, which was very poignant, even though I expected it. Thank you!
My man Bill Clinton just won Game of the Year award
I've been trying to put my thoughts on this together since it first came out. Something about this makes it one of the most captivating documentaries I've ever seen, I've watched it over and over as a result. Thank you so much for making it! It's clear just how much effort went into it (and I can't believe you had to deal with a copyright claim as well, that's awful.)
Well I guess it’s time for a [RE-WATCH]
I think I want to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton
This series was captivating and brilliant, and I'd argue that it _did_ have a happy ending -- the detection of the Higgs boson is a monumental achievement. I've heard particle accelerator/colliders compared to smashing pocket watches together until they break and working out how they're built by studying the behavior of the debris. Sometimes, humans can choose to work together in the pursuit of incredible things. Nationalism is stupid. The Large Hadron Collider is a brilliant demonstration of why. It is viscerally frustrating, even sickening, how much effort and resources go to waste for the sake of international dick-measuring contests.
I guess I just got a reason to rewatch the entire series
This series is so good. Like, I listened to it at work and then had to re-watch at home because the visuals were so captivating.
The quality on this channel is nuts, you can even go back a few years and enjoy stuff on other subjects.
Also, BOO to you petty graph man. Go graph your pettiness over time or some shit.
God, I love that one of my Physics professors recommended your channel for our class.
What's the course name? I am very curious now
I literally cried, tears and all, for about 20 seconds straight after I was surprised to read that a man who dedicated his life to science for the discoveries and advancement of humanity, had to sell his Nobel prize medal just to pay off medical debts. I rarely get ambushed by sadness like that, but it hurts so much coz we know that THAT is the current state of humanity, a constant decay. This world needs a bigger heart, it doesn't matter if you're the smartest, or the richest person on earth, I think a good heart still trumps that, and unfortunately we lack compassion in this world, which is the very ideal that makes any of us worth saving. We SHOULD be better people. We need to do the right thing just BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, not let greed and power corrupt our world, that our very own brightest minds have been reduced to selling their personal achievements for things that should have been covered for them, considering that they have served ALL OF US.💔 If you know of anyone personally struggling, please help them if it is in your power to do so, do it for no other reason, but that it is the right thing to do.
Capitalism is a bitch huh?
Glad to rewatch! Keep up the good work, and don't let CZcams get you down. You make some amazing content.
although without that *specific* curve being removed from this reupload, I'm not sure I can fully enjoy the original artist intent /s.
Seriously, I have never regretted putting off watching a recommended channel as much as I have yours! These videos are all incredible production quality, engaging, and expertly narrated; please keep making these, thank you.
I can't even imagine how much time and effort had to go through to research this story. Absolutely breathtaking work, Bobby.
Sorry you had to reupload it for such a dumb reason! Still a fantastic scenario to the series!! I've never been so invested in a project I knew was doomed to fail!
One of the best documentaries on CZcams. Shame that CZcams doesn't realize it, and gives you zero support to deal with what should be such an easily solvable situation. Hope the re-uploading doesn't damage your placement in the algorithm too badly :P
Your ability to take so many moving parts and create a consistent and coherent story through the whole thing is amazing. Great work dude!
I found your channel relatively recently, and I just have to say, wow. This was an amazing series, with an ending that I can neither confirm nor deny made me emotional, and…just…wow. Thanks for making such an amazing series
I never commented on the original upload. Which is a relief, because now I don't have to worry about infringing my own copyright by re-posting my comment from last time. 🤡
It goes without saying at this point, but awesome work, dude. Another super engrossing and well-presented story. So happy for your success!
My new life goal is to make the best physics diagrams on earth solely for the purpose of striking down any hour-long CZcams videos that display them for 7 seconds.
More seriously, I'm sorry that happened. You make great videos and it sucks you had to deal with something like this. I really wish CZcams just had a "replace video" feature. Not only for stuff like this, but also for fixing errors in general.
I mean they technically have the option to censor offending parts of a video - it was just greyed out for him
Clicked on this one, realized about ten minutes in that it was the finale in a three-part series, and IMMEDIATELY had to go watch the first two. These are absolutely stellar! I'm very excited now to take a look at other videos you've made, and I'm so glad your channel exists!
This is truly one of the best series on youtube. Incredible job, dude, you should be extremely proud of yourself. Can't wait to binge all of your content
I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this video for ages. Your content is superb and don't let anyone keep you down. You have 2 fans now, myself and my father!
Amazing video. I feel sorry for the copyright strike situation. I hope this does not discourage you from making similar long form documentaries.
I have never had an interest in physics, but I love watching video essays for fun and I’m so glad I clicked on this series on a whim. The way everything was framed and told made it all so interesting; great work on this video series!
just rewatched this for the third time and just.. man. your storytelling, the editing, all of it! it just floors me!!
Such a strange situation to force the re-upload, but the documentary was so good, and honestly this along with the Jan hendrik schon doc are among the very best I've seen CZcams or otherwise. Most of all no one makes docs on the topics you do and they're such good quality, so I hope this vid can catch back up with where the other one was algorithm wise.
this is a great series and i will definitely have to rewatch it now, that all parts are out, to absorb more of the information. it's such a long, and complicated, yet riveting story. your use of 3d graphics really makes your documentaries stand out from others and helps make the information visually digestible. keep doing the good work
I worked on the magnet portion for one of those "Industrial Military Complex" contractors, and several deciding factors of this project were unknown to the personnel at the time.
Thanks for shedding light and filling in those knowledge gaps.
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Beautiful series! Started with the Bog Brothers and am binging your whole channel now. Your animation style and story telling are amazing and captivating. Keep up the good work!
genuinely one of the greatest youtube documentaries i’ve ever watched! all three parts were amazing in presentation and editing, and i was interested in the topic the entire way through, continue making amazing stuff!!!
Commenting for the algorithm. This is too good to be screwed over by a reupload.
So frustrating this got taken down! Glad to see it back up again. Really great video.
What I find weird is that so much is spent on the military, but then they can’t spare anything for just finishing a project like this. I ‘m not American, I probably don’t understand, but find it weird that they can’t just cut some spending somewhere else.
Comment for engagement, but I’m so so excited to see more stuff like this from you. The animation and “storytelling,” for lack of a better word, is just fantastic. Yet, while being entertaining, you keep this series informative as well 🤩
I don’t know a lot about physics, but this series has had me hooked the whole way through. I remember getting to the end of the first video and going “wait, it’s over??” But now, it is over (for the second time) and I cannot wait for the next series ❤
i cannot imagine another project with the sheer quality and dedication you have to your videos. i genuinely watch these over and over again because they soothe my anxiety, your entire channel is a safe bet for any time i feel unwell. thank you for your videos, i hope one day i can support you on your patreon
Another amazing series. The time and effort you put into these is very evident, not only making them enjoyable to listen to, but to watch as well. Can't wait to see what comes next
This video and series has been incredible. Its infuriating to think a person wasn't willing at all to discuss their claim and the frustrating process you had to go through to avoid the strike. Kudos to you amd your vigilance!
This video is an absolutely wonderful work, and I'm glad to have seen it! The story about the graph guy is truly insane, especially the complete lack of communication you got back. Glad you got it sorted at least. No idea how he even found out about all that, nor how anybody with something resembling a soul could run into something so obscure that they had made and not be happy to see it floating around. The whole ordeal also demonstrated how hilariously one-sided youtube's systems are.
Keep making cool stuff and telling stories that are worth telling!
This series of videos is definitely the best-thought and the best-told story I have ever had the pleasure to experience. I've seen some fantastic concepts on lots of different subjects (and I am particularly quite into fundamental physics and education in physics as a Dr. in cosmology and higher education physics teacher) but never did I see as much dedication to dealing with all parts of a topic as you did here. This is a masterpiece, and I mean it very sincerely. I had never given much thought about being a Patreon for a CZcams channel before, and you changed that.
Thank you for the inspiration and awe you make me feel from watching the quality of your work alone, which comes along with quite a dose of humility concerning what perfect storytelling can be and sprinkles of humour surrounded by wonderfully chosen topics. You are giving me new perspectives and goals to reach in my life in a domain I thought I already needed a whole career to satisfy my love of educational practices.
Well, new upload, so I'll say it again:
Thank you for this great series. I honestly didn't expect to be so invested into a failed megaproject thousands of kilometers from where I live in a different country, but, you've done it, and I'm glad for every second of it! Great job, start to finish.
Very good series! Thank you for all this work. I really enjoyed this and definitely think you derserve more subscribers.
Now on a very different note: In the last section what really got me was the little 'Where are they now'. Seeing that Lederman had to sell his nobel prize medal to cover his medical bills is a tragicly perfect analogy to another failure of the American system besides the SSC.
This is insane! So sorry this happened to you!
I love such videos from you, and this series has been awesome!
YT should look hard & deep inside itself reg. such issues...
I've just re-watched this series again and I must say that the second viewing is just as good as the first one despite me knowing the outcome and some of the details. The presentation, music, sound-effects and narration is playing in a league of it's own. Amazing work!
Thoroughly enjoyed this journey. Thank you. Few things on CZcams right now as satisfying as seeing all the wedges of that calendar wheel filled out.
Prolly the 5 millionth time you've read a comment like this, but these videos are towards the highest end of quality. Visuals are great, and, most of all, you really know how to tell a story. The bits and pieces of humor really help you stand out and they make the whole video feel genuine.
The video getting taken down was a good excuse to rewatch the whole series. This story is so iconic, like so much could've saved this project and basically everyone dropped the ball for the dumbest of reasons.
Wonderful work on the series (and all your documentaries)! Thanks for reuploading after your troubles, I hadnt yet found the chance to watch this until now but Ive been looking forward to this
Was just wondering when part 3 would come out and checked the channel - lucky me ! Amazing work as always
I was doing my Masters in Physics Engineering in Europe during the negotiation for the LHC, the initial runs, and the following confirmation by the CERN crew, that the Higgs had been found. With a few teachers with insides on the project, I vividly remember there was a fear that the LHC might suffer the same fate as the SSC, in the long run, especially after Germany expressed major doubts under the Schröder administration about the long-term usefulness of the project considering TeVatron's continued shortening of the Higgs TeV range seemed to suggest a vanishing mirage.
Ultimately, Germany accepted the short-term solution as a compromise to decide whether LHC funding was worth pursuing (not to mention the LHC Atlas and Alice experiment's early results allowed CERN to point at useful published papers in technical areas), and with the intersection of a more open French cabinet, and the Merkel cabinet outright stating they'd fund the LHC as a priority for Germany's contributions, it got its budget confirmed and secured, with the additional foreign funding helping CERN post-finantial crash. But it is good to put in perspective that even the LHC's admittedly much smaller final budget wasn't without a lot of sweat, tears and scariness.
Ultimately... with the gift of hindsight, we could say the SSC was always doomed to fail. A colossal budget that bloated several times over, a list of unenviable bureaucratic and administrative nightmares, the US's dogged resistance to separating science infrastructure from military-style management, and many many personal intrigues. It's a testament to the 'throw deep' mentality that Reagan epitomized but is often transversal to the relationship between scientific megaprojects in America and its political class. Make it unambiguously A Thing TM, or it ain't worth it. Its... spiritual successor project, the ISS, can't be said to have fared much better, with a good size of the international community pondering whether the tenuous scientific knowledge of low-gravity experimentation and human acclimatization to space is worth the monstruous investment tag that could have perhaps been better put to use in actual terraforming studies, or projects like James Webb. However, with the recent push to put space resources to optimal use, the ISS also represents our best tool for spatial infrastructure understanding so far.
I find that there's no clear lesson to take from this. Front-end science, now more than ever, requires gambles. Physics lingers in an uncertain nebula, with the assumptions of the Standard Model crashing violently against the results both from the LHC and the last 50 years, and the lack of any useful theory to lead us past the non-concordance of quantum theory and gravity, or the chasm at the end of the dark matter and dark energy conundrums, Cosmology stuck at a point where it'd like the answer to that last one as well, thank you very much, and condensed matter physics stuck between the ominous Damocles' sword of Moore's Law ending, and the fact that superconducting is not the be-all end-all solution to scalability it once hoped to solve many issues with. The LHC, as with many historical successes, has left us with more questions than answers, but, perhaps problematically, at a time where a hefty dose of realism and freeze must be injected into scientific funding, with the all-looming catastrophe of climate disaster requiring ever larger enthusiasm and capital to address before it slides from merely disastrous to cataclysmically irreversible. One hopes that there is perhaps a needle to be threaded here to allow the works of previous decades to not go to a complete waste here, even if at a slower pace.
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I am so glad I found your channel the other day. So much context to the things that I knew a little about, but ended up knowing only a fraction. Thanks to you a lot of the holes are being filled in!
Another subscriber commenting just to help with the engagement thing. I watched the original release, and very much enjoyed it. Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you so much (again) for this series. You did an absolute job at visual editing, storytelling and your freaking choice of music.
I loved your visual presentation in particular. Damn clever, and elegant.
And thank you for this deep introduction into US politics. For a non-american like me, it was terra incognita with some cliches before you irrupted into my life with the help of yt algo.
You're such a great story teller! This series is just fantastic, thank you!!
Absolutely incredible and in depth docuseries, wish there were more people like yourself making content on CZcams.
Keep up the good work Robert.
Absolutely incredible. So well put together, so informative and such a unique visual style. You deserve all the recognition you’re getting and then some.
As a particle physics student I am grateful for your wonderfully produced videos. Keep up your great work!! :D
I'm a nobel prize winner and enthusiastic deep sea diver and I would like to congratulate Mr. Brocoli on the tremendous job he has done with this digital audio-visual narrative.
I'm also a novel prize winner and I concur.
This has been one of the coolest and most unique documentary series I have seen on CZcams. Really well paced and presented in a great style
Awesome series! I have a reeeeally hard time retaining information and staying focussed on topics I'm not very familiar with and your script and presentation worked so well.