Higgs, dark matter and supersymmetry: What the Large Hadron Collider will tell us (Steven Weinberg)

The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator, will begin operation this year in a quest to answer some of the most intriguing questions in physics. One of its missions will be to search for the Higgs boson, which Steven Weinberg predicted in a paper in 1967-nearly half a century ago. An even more exciting possibility is that the collider will reveal something about the nature of the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the universe. Finally, the LHC may shed light on the theory of supersymmetry. Weinberg will give us a heads-up on what to watch for in the coming months.
Steven Weinberg, Ph.D. - Regental professor of physics and director, theory research group - University of Texas at Austin
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas, where he is a member of the physics and astronomy departments. He is the author of more than 300 articles on elementary particle physics, and his research has been honored with many awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. His books include, for popular readers, The First Three Minutes (1977); Dreams of a Final Theory -- The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993) and Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries (2001). His most recent professional book is Cosmology (2008).
www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/we...

[@Cloudy2Clear]

Like Tesla or Einstein forgetting to eat or sleep, he forgets the microphone. I envy their ability to concentrate on their subject so intensely that they temporarily forget the basics...

[@erebus79]

Good, interesting talk. Weinberg is a great speaker.

[@josephgreen2008]

The woman tell him to take the mic with him then he uses it to point at the screen....priceless

[@audience2]

Thank you to the person that kept handing him the microphone.

[@Benjuthula]

Cool, thanks for posting.

[@evanstafford55]

Its been running a few years and lots of interesting things coming from there!

[@RobertBMenke]

Where can i find updated information on the lhd???

[@Moretanks]

'Absent mindedness is inversly poportional to intelligence'

[@darkmiles22]

I love Weinberg's voice and style, but he cannot figure out the mic in this video.

[@chessdominos]

It's very funny see him to point the screen with the microfone. Anyway I wish to be like him.

[@gendou2]

Should have equipped him with a lav mic.

[@breathless46]

Hee hee hee way to go Steven! Thanks

[@breathless46]

Nice to see that such a great mind has a charming imperfection.

[@SeanMauer]

Dark matter is based on assumptions of standard heavy element production theories, but there are competing theories put forward by Wallace Thornhill that would make dark matter unnecessary.

[@skorpion2008]

It would be even greater if we could hear him!

[@omar2010111]

good

[@skorpion2008]

It would be great if we could hear this man speak, why couldn't they afford to give him a decent microphone?

[@MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

I find holding a microphone near the mouth helps pick up the sound better, but that's just me.

[@discostew2000]

the sound is really bad. what a shame

[@jeffcolorado]

I'd love to listen to this, but the sound quality is very annoying.

[@johnvuc]

Yes, I think his microphone has a weak interaction..

[@tomp2008]

it's a mic not a laser pointer

[@jorgeAlvarez73]

Amazing...3 people actually dislike this.....hehehe..

[@mfunke]

@rh7189 ROFL!

[@wildf1re]

needs to learn how to use a microphone eh? interesting though.

[@knockdoun]

for a genius quantum physicist it seems he doesn't know how to a mic...