What's Really Happening At CERN

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  • čas přidán 30. 04. 2024
  • The world’s most astonishing science experiment, simply explained.
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    On the border between France and Switzerland is the biggest science experiment humanity has ever built. Over a 100 meters underground, there’s a tunnel 27 kilometers long in a big loop under nearby homes, businesses, and farms. Inside that tunnel, scientists built a blue tube big enough to crawl through, and inside that tube, they put two pipes that they keep colder and emptier than outer space. Down those pipes, they fire particles smaller than atoms in opposite directions…. and push them faster and faster… until when they’re almost at the speed of light… they SMASH TOGETHER.
    This underground particle-smasher is also known as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It took thousands of scientists from over nearly 100 different countries $5 billion dollars and 30 years to plan and build.
    My question is: Why? Why did they do that??? Why spend so much money and time to smash particles underground? And now… why do so many scientists say what we really need to do is build… a BIGGER one?
    To answer those questions, we’re going on a journey all the way to Switzerland, to the particle smasher itself! And you’re never going to see yourself or the world around you the same way…
    Chapters:
    0:00 What’s happening at CERN?
    1:31 What is the Large Hadron Collider?
    2:32 How did they build the Large Hadron Collider?
    3:43 How small is a proton?
    4:51 How do they get protons to hit each other??
    6:43 Why build this?
    7:43 What happens when particles smash together?
    8:47 What are elementary particles?
    9:37 What is the Higgs Boson?
    10:46 What did they find??
    11:33 Why does this matter?
    12:52 Why build a bigger collider?
    13:48 What is the Future Circular Collider?
    14:56 What else could we build?
    15:56 Who do we want to be?
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    Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular CZcams channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s CZcams Originals show, Glad You Asked.
    Additional reading and watching:
    - “Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment,” by Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl: • Inside the World's Lar...
    - “The Higgs Boson, Part I,” by Minute Physics: • The Higgs Boson, Part I
    - “The Higgs boson at 10 years,” by Dr Clara Nellist (one of our wonderful experts in this video!): • The Higgs boson at 10 ...
    - “The Large Hadron Collider beam pipe: everything you didn't know you wanted to know,” by Dr Clara Nellist: • The Large Hadron Colli...
    - “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 1” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
    - “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 2” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
    - “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 3” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
    - “Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe,” by Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl: • Seeing the Smallest Th...
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    Welcome to the joke down low:
    Why did the Higgs Field get invited to church?
    They wanted to have mass.
    Find a way to use “mass” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

Komentáře • 7K

  • @yammietomogrady1322
    @yammietomogrady1322 Před 13 dny +4927

    Took my daughter there as a gift when she graduated from university . Now she's a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Proud Dad

    • @user-sj7he8mq5s
      @user-sj7he8mq5s Před 13 dny +80

      Did you explain how it a huge waste of taxpayer dollars

    • @MemoriesAreLost
      @MemoriesAreLost Před 13 dny +92

      Exactly how close do I need to get to CERN before I become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow? And did it affect you too?
      😋

    • @snared_
      @snared_ Před 13 dny

      @@user-sj7he8mq5s what do you have against fundamental research?

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před 13 dny

      ​@@user-sj7he8mq5sif humanity listened to people like you we would still be living in caves eating slugs

    • @NullScar
      @NullScar Před 13 dny +38

      Can you be my dad for a day and also bring me. I swear, I will not touch anything, but I will try to use my telekinesis ability, though. Only for research purposes, that is.

  • @BharaniSai
    @BharaniSai Před 13 dny +4863

    Loved the final note about how we want an Alien civilization to look at us as a scientific and curious race and not just a planet of conflict and mass destruction

    • @nuklearboysymbiote
      @nuklearboysymbiote Před 13 dny +152

      in order for that to happen, humans need to solve ethics & justice issues first… not rush to research new tech that can be used dangerously by those in power…

    • @3rdlegend445
      @3rdlegend445 Před 13 dny +60

      @@nuklearboysymbiotei love you both are talking about it like we know aliens’ intentions and thoughts 😂😂

    • @nuklearboysymbiote
      @nuklearboysymbiote Před 13 dny +78

      @@3rdlegend445 i mean, we don't know how to communicate to ants, but we still know that there are massive empires and wars going on… actions are a more universal language than abstractions

    • @aaryanjadhav2822
      @aaryanjadhav2822 Před 13 dny +38

      I don't know how they will feel after knowing that the first use of necular tech was to build an extinction bomb.😂

    • @Andreas.r2
      @Andreas.r2 Před 13 dny

      I too loved that cleo talks but i know this next collider will create argue and conflict between scientists and reserchers......i too love to go to space and meet at least one aliens gen who is probably not a planet eater.

  • @frankijupiter
    @frankijupiter Před 8 dny +530

    For context... $17B is roughly 1 week of the US military budget. Just to give a little perspective.

    • @podunkest
      @podunkest Před 7 dny +34

      Also pretty close to NASA's yearly budget, which is about 22-23 bn iirc.

    • @ItsMrMetaverse
      @ItsMrMetaverse Před 7 dny +53

      I've been to CERN, the tech is very antiquated. That is to say, all their computers and servers are, the actually LHC is of course state of art. But because they are so poor as an institute, they don't even store their own data on drives, but still use TAPES (Cheaper they say.)
      They send everything to partners for analysis, other universities.
      The world spends BILLIONS every day on War... and only a few billion a year onscience.

    • @EricBurbeck
      @EricBurbeck Před 7 dny +6

      "I'll take contextual clues that are unrelatable to the point of irrelevance for...$17B" :P

    • @tedebayer1
      @tedebayer1 Před 7 dny +7

      still a lot for trying to make mini black holes... the ones that suck money into it

    • @ArminiusReturn
      @ArminiusReturn Před 7 dny +4

      @ItsMrMetaverse wouldn't it be nice if they just spent $6 billion On the Border that's something that would have an immediate a benefit upon every citizen. For years to come. Possibly decades

  • @chachakanjar
    @chachakanjar Před 8 dny +108

    Oh wow, did not know that Peter Higgs recently died! What a legacy that man left behind. From not taken seriously to finally seeing his theories in action must have been a delight. RIP

    • @MiddlePath33
      @MiddlePath33 Před 6 dny

      He died during the eclipse

    • @jeffcookdotau
      @jeffcookdotau Před 5 dny +1

      @@MiddlePath33 He died on the day of the eclipse, which was only partial in Edinburgh. What makes you believe that he passed away during one of the 12 minutes of the eclipse?

    • @CraftySasquatch
      @CraftySasquatch Před 2 dny

      So many scientists from every field always suffer the same thing. For instance the ones claiming a micro nova caused by the 12k year cyclical galactic wave. Great news is we only have to wait until 2040. Until then we will see an increase in the so called m@n M@de CliEm@te ch@nge. Just ask them why is the cliEm@te ch@nging on other planets in our solar system.

  • @j.d.cunegan302
    @j.d.cunegan302 Před 13 dny +2117

    Find someone who looks at you the way Cleo looks at the CERN collider. Your passion and awe for this stuff is infectious.

    • @user-xj5xp6qz5g
      @user-xj5xp6qz5g Před 13 dny +5

    • @user-qq2nj6lw1h
      @user-qq2nj6lw1h Před 12 dny

      The contemporary Muslim awareness course, and the psychology course, will teach you why the West lags behind the Islamic community.

    • @TreCayUltimateLife
      @TreCayUltimateLife Před 12 dny +8

      Hah! Right. My parents don't even love me.

    • @dlrabin
      @dlrabin Před 12 dny +35

      Find Cleo and be a collider ;)

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano Před 12 dny +21

      Had that for over 41 years, lost her just over two years ago.

  • @ParticleClara
    @ParticleClara Před 12 dny +1679

    Thanks for coming to visit us at CERN! It was fantastic to show you and the team our experiment and I love how the video came out! ☺

    • @toaster143
      @toaster143 Před 12 dny +19

      Thank you also, you're TikTok account is amazing please never stop!

    • @AidenHere.
      @AidenHere. Před 11 dny +2

      Hello!

    • @Nayr86
      @Nayr86 Před 11 dny +44

      On a serious note 🧐
      It's a Stargate isn't it ?

    • @TheJacklwilliams
      @TheJacklwilliams Před 11 dny +4

      You all are so very cool! Im insanely jealous of what you get to experience! CERN is such an amazing place!

    • @TT-zo6px
      @TT-zo6px Před 11 dny

      So you guys know how to get antimatter, why turn it on when the "eclipse" was going on? Interesting how you guys have a statue in front of CERN that has a "portal"

  • @josh-lewis
    @josh-lewis Před 7 dny +101

    I'm bald so I don't understand how small protons are.

    • @iamcjamesgmail
      @iamcjamesgmail Před 5 dny +4

      My Dink is large so I don't understand women.

    • @user-jo8wz2ew4q
      @user-jo8wz2ew4q Před 2 dny

      Come on, You have to have one on your butt somewhere don't you?

    • @Nitro15
      @Nitro15 Před 2 dny +2

      None of you were funny
      Lmao what now your still not funny

    • @Russellsauce
      @Russellsauce Před dnem

      @@Nitro15 you no where grammar?

    • @jamieclarke2694
      @jamieclarke2694 Před dnem

      ​@Nitro15 luckily for you, I'm funny... were*

  • @viktorgoa
    @viktorgoa Před 7 dny +25

    I went there before the pandemic during the open days, when they had every part of LHC open. It was the best weekend of my life, this machine is truly an engineering masterpiece

  • @R4wF4ce
    @R4wF4ce Před 13 dny +688

    Cleo is just out here living our nerd fantasies; working with NASA, Boston Dynamics, F1, CERN, etc. Thanks for bringing us along with you.

    • @DisposableSupervillainHenchman
      @DisposableSupervillainHenchman Před 13 dny +11

      The realest nerd fantasy is simply having a girlfriend. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @VS-is9yb
      @VS-is9yb Před 12 dny +16

      @DisposableSupervillainHenchman Nope. Cause there are a lot of women but CERN is unique.

    • @ethanhilgert3995
      @ethanhilgert3995 Před 12 dny +2

      9:10 “this is a beautiful description” absolutely not. That’s a spaghetti bowl of random gibberish.

    • @originzz
      @originzz Před 12 dny +6

      @@DisposableSupervillainHenchmanscience is better

    • @imkimayak
      @imkimayak Před 12 dny

      I SWEAR

  • @Ernthir
    @Ernthir Před 7 dny +9

    Well done. You managed to explain everything in a very cool way without oversensationalizing it.

  • @rushja
    @rushja Před 6 dny +2

    Well put Cleo, science needs people like you to make it more accessible. The best thing about science is that it's a shared human experience in time, and we need to accelerate that knowledge

  • @evanmyers580
    @evanmyers580 Před 13 dny +564

    That size comparison of a grain of rice as a nucleus honestly blew my mind

    • @TheGlobalProfessional
      @TheGlobalProfessional Před 13 dny +18

      It was a great aid in truly understanding the scale.

    • @willcookmakeup
      @willcookmakeup Před 12 dny +9

      And it truly made sense. So many of those scale videos are just not comprehensible at such large scales

    • @BenjaminMilekowsky
      @BenjaminMilekowsky Před 11 dny +1

      I can't believe we made of these unseen thiny particles, but it is what it is

    • @evanmyers580
      @evanmyers580 Před 11 dny +1

      @@BenjaminMilekowsky It's good to be skeptical, though if you'd like to look over some proofs, I'd look up Brownian motion as well as the gold foil experiment. Both provide pretty strong evidence of atomic theory

    • @ashbody000
      @ashbody000 Před 11 dny

      Now think almost all the mass of the whole earth is concentrated in that rice

  • @JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy
    @JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy Před 10 dny +322

    RIP Peter Higgs. As a lapsed particle physicist I actually cried during the Higgs Boson announcement scene. An amazing human and I'm so glad he got to see the actual detection of his proposed/theoretical particle.

    • @MikeSmith-tx2lp
      @MikeSmith-tx2lp Před 10 dny +3

      @@eternity8811 so did I, be a great human.

    • @king124kine
      @king124kine Před 10 dny +5

      @@eternity8811 Man you must hate your life

    • @sfermigier
      @sfermigier Před 10 dny +10

      Higgs Boson announcement, gravitational waves detection announcement, black hole image announcement: three major scientific discoveries (maybe the three most important discoveries of the last 15 years?) that were announced live on the internet. I'm glad that the digital age has enabled such significant moments in science to be shared globally in real time.

    • @immortalfool7627
      @immortalfool7627 Před 9 dny +1

      He is in that quantum realm right now.

    • @RobertDeloyd
      @RobertDeloyd Před 9 dny +5

      I got teared up at that scene too, but I didn't know he had passed until the end of this fine video ❤

  • @noumanintown
    @noumanintown Před 6 dny +2

    Thank you for making complex topics digestible and comprehensible, you have struck a great balance for the general public.

  • @YOLOBNB
    @YOLOBNB Před 8 dny +5

    Where were you all this time? I loved this video. I am a Physics student currently doing my Masters. This video literally gave me a boost in my motivation to learn more.

  • @wompa70
    @wompa70 Před 13 dny +236

    "Yep, it's a bump on a chart." This is part of why I learn so much from your videos.

    • @jgleigh
      @jgleigh Před 13 dny +22

      $17B is a bump on global defense spending. Just build it!

    • @oldmech619
      @oldmech619 Před 12 dny +4

      And it is a small bump on the chart. I think CERN really hasn’t found anything big. Finding the Higgs really doesn’t mean much to science.

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano Před 12 dny +18

      @@oldmech619 well, since mass isn't a big deal to you, neither is gravity. Feel free to step off of a roof and show us all how little mass and gravity mean to you.

    • @oldmech619
      @oldmech619 Před 12 dny +1

      @@spvillano Gravity is not something we understand and may never understand the how and why it works. The Higgs bump does nothing to further the science.

    • @styleguruful
      @styleguruful Před 12 dny +13

      @@oldmech619 Yet. You can't say it has done nothing to further science when science is evolving minute by minute. You can say it did nothing to further science when this world ceases to exist, and you look back at the eons in retrospect.

  • @emreyurtseven23
    @emreyurtseven23 Před 13 dny +245

    Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites Cleo. The subject matter, production, pacing, narration etc. are all superb. Huge props to you and your team for bringing science & technology to masses in such a well executed way!

  • @billwindsor4224
    @billwindsor4224 Před 8 dny +2

    Wow, what a quality production you have made here, Cleo and Team. Excellent work, with the wonder and enthusiasm that all of us feel about exploring our universe. 🏆🏆

  • @akshatsiuuu
    @akshatsiuuu Před 6 dny +4

    whenever i stop feeling excited about my career or science i watch one of your videos and it's amazing how you make us feel excited just as you are and thanks for that !!!!!!!!1

  • @abhigyan_tiwari5
    @abhigyan_tiwari5 Před 13 dny +349

    RIP Peter Ware Higgs... The giant genius of particle physics🙏🙏

    • @schmantikor
      @schmantikor Před 13 dny +5

      But everyone forgets that the Higgs Boson only lends its mass to electrons, so only 20 grams of an 80 kilogram person come from it.

    • @TitusRex
      @TitusRex Před 12 dny +16

      ​@@schmantikor this is not true. Completely wrong.
      The Higgs field gives mass to various fundamental particles like quarks, leptons and electrons.

    • @tonywells6990
      @tonywells6990 Před 12 dny +1

      @@schmantikor Don't forget quarks, so about 0.8 kg.

    • @ashifarman4813
      @ashifarman4813 Před 11 dny +5

      ​@@schmantikorno they also give mass to your mom that why she is fato

    • @BenjaminMilekowsky
      @BenjaminMilekowsky Před 11 dny +1

      I can't believe we made of these unseen thiny particles, but it is what it is

  • @jacoboblanco1555
    @jacoboblanco1555 Před 12 dny +98

    I was immensely lucky to be able to work as part of the ATLAS collaboration and make a tiny tiny contribution. Amazing group of people from all over the worlds doing great work.

    • @freemanrader75
      @freemanrader75 Před 11 dny +5

      Everyone is working for money or out of passionate curiosity therefore nobody realizes what they are building, its purpose or who it’s for. I might be ugly but at least I ain’t got no money.

    • @elodie9898
      @elodie9898 Před 11 dny +2

      I've been part of the ATLAS collaboration too! one of the best job experience I had

    • @prem9501
      @prem9501 Před 11 dny +2

      Huge respect

    • @Ram-Jo
      @Ram-Jo Před 10 dny

      Super cool

    • @HadroN-1
      @HadroN-1 Před 8 dny

      What exactly do I need to do , to be a nuclear physicist like them?

  • @Libroerina
    @Libroerina Před 8 dny +1

    Awesome video! Great explanations and storytelling to show the need and impact of this kind of research. Great job!!!

  • @georgeyasko6882
    @georgeyasko6882 Před 8 dny

    Cleo - another great topic! Thanks again for the hard work that you and your team do in putting these together. And I definitely would purchase a hat and shirt!!

  • @the_thunder_god
    @the_thunder_god Před 13 dny +101

    Love that you went to CERN! My Dad (now retired) and I (taking care of my dad now) used to work at the previous largest collider, Fermilab, in Batavia, IL. Nothing having to do with the physics going on there, just supporting it. My dad was a HVAC engineer there. I had a few positions....cooperative education student...forklift driver, and web development contractor. Through our time there though, we definitely learned the basics about what goes on there. You really can't avoid it when you're working on stuff supporting it every day.
    We don't learn unless we try. I very much support trying.

    • @grimskull416
      @grimskull416 Před 13 dny +1

      Thanks to you and your dad's work!

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano Před 12 dny +1

      I'd love to just sit there and go over the magnet control circuitry. The timing has to be a bear to maintain precise control of!

  • @ReclaimerPC
    @ReclaimerPC Před 9 dny +77

    Really appreciated how you had the script fact checked. Loved how this production was able to explain the importance and impact of not only the LHC but all fundamental research. Well done, would LOVE to see more content like this in the future.

    • @fibonacho
      @fibonacho Před 8 dny +2

      Except for the part at 11:42 about Newton "couldn't possibly have imagined there would be humans on the moon nearly 300 years later." Of course he could have imagined that.

    • @eel7157
      @eel7157 Před 8 dny

      ​@@fibonachoBAHAHAHA 💀💀💀💀💀

    • @joel6376
      @joel6376 Před 8 dny

      Yet no mention of demons or interdimensional portals.

  • @casualdadgames
    @casualdadgames Před 7 dny +2

    This is quite possibly the best video I've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing this, I'll be showing it to my daughter later!

  • @de-motivational-speaker
    @de-motivational-speaker Před 4 dny +1

    I loved the excitement in ur voice while you're explaining the things. It shows how much you love the science to explain. the flow of information flowing in ur brain but your words can't keep up with the information. I feel the same when i talk about my favourite topics. I can feel you :)

  • @garz75
    @garz75 Před 10 dny +132

    I interned at CERN 30 years ago as a comp Sci student at the Web Office with the creators of the WWW: In a few months I accumulated such a big mass of knowledge and experience working with all kind of scientists and engineers! It shaped my whole career and method of work.

  • @soubhagyagrover2630
    @soubhagyagrover2630 Před 11 dny +137

    This is easily my new favourite place to come to on the internet. I’ve never felt more proud of being part of this whole human project and be surrounded by folks like yall.

    • @ezmadarlington942
      @ezmadarlington942 Před 10 dny

      That’s a mistake !!! Stop drinking the cool aid or being injected

    • @laststand6420
      @laststand6420 Před 10 dny

      It's amazing how much variety humanity holds

    • @monetroshi
      @monetroshi Před 10 dny

      Calm down… the discovery will most likely be used to harm other humans or the planet. That’s all we do

    • @chillydoog
      @chillydoog Před 10 dny

      Someone blew a load in the collider

  • @ScorpioDRush621
    @ScorpioDRush621 Před 8 dny

    Your ending talking about wanting to be viewed as a civilization seeking knowledge brought me to tears. Bravo. If only everyone could think the same way your beautiful brain does.

  • @nandayoichineee8820
    @nandayoichineee8820 Před 7 dny

    I already was 2 times in an particle collider called DESY in Hamburg Germany and i was stunned what tech is inside there. But still to this moment i didnt fully understood why.
    Thank you for your almost perfect explanation, im stunned

  • @sahilshah2392
    @sahilshah2392 Před 10 dny +55

    I have to say that this is the best influncer I have ever seen in this industry. Keep up the great work.Research and scripting are at their finest, so please continue.

    • @garymartin9777
      @garymartin9777 Před 9 dny +1

      A rival to Physics Girl. Poor thing is suffering a long illness so she's not doing anything new.

    • @pthk2874
      @pthk2874 Před 9 dny

      @@garymartin9777never heard of her, thank you for sharing. Gonna give her a follow, don’t know what’s her illness but hope she gets better!

  • @Astrolab.insights
    @Astrolab.insights Před 13 dny +108

    This video gave me chills so many times, in a very good way! Your words just felt really powerful and made my soul smile

  • @robertfoertsch
    @robertfoertsch Před 7 dny +1

    Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library… Thanks Cleo.

  • @user-uk5qz9ui6p
    @user-uk5qz9ui6p Před 8 dny +1

    Outstanding presentation Cleo, stumbled onto your utube channel and subscribed immediately. Making complex topic understandable is an art

  • @fernandorosales2418
    @fernandorosales2418 Před 9 dny +246

    A bunch of scientists trying to figure out the fabric of the universe while a bunch of politicians are salivating trying to figure out how this can make a bigger, better military weapon.

    • @Birdgangg
      @Birdgangg Před 8 dny +13

      This is facts. There’s no way this would happen if that weren’t the underlying purpose.

    • @PaulSzkibik
      @PaulSzkibik Před 8 dny +4

      @@Birdgangg Nope, it's still just an opinion unless you can actually provide proof. Which you may well be able to but so far, I don't think Cern has made any new weapon tech possible. So... do you have any actual proof (facts?) to back this claim up?

    • @JerehmiaBoaz
      @JerehmiaBoaz Před 8 dny +7

      The fact that you can't use this research directly to produce military technology is an important reason for why the LHC wasn't built in the USA but in Europe.

    • @loveszappa
      @loveszappa Před 8 dny +3

      I think the point was that politicians WISH they could and absolutely would if it were possible…but science seems to bring out the condescending and superior attitude in many.

    • @loveszappa
      @loveszappa Před 8 dny +5

      @@PaulSzkibikhe didn’t make any claims, it was clearly conjecture based on historical facts. If you think politicians care about science, well, that explains it.

  • @danielglavas
    @danielglavas Před 12 dny +63

    "Monuments dedicated to knowledge." That's a pretty way to put it!

    • @Daniel9.13
      @Daniel9.13 Před 10 dny +1

      Knowledge is great the wisdom to appropriately use said knowledge is greater. Knowledge + Wisdom =🤍 Capiche ?

    • @MrDStCyr
      @MrDStCyr Před 9 dny +2

      Agree, I like that description as well

  • @GlawinsOctaneTune
    @GlawinsOctaneTune Před 8 dny

    It is very refreshing to see someone in your generation so excited about science. I'm a boomer (missed GenX by a few months), but have ALWAYS been fascinated by it myself. I lacked the funding to get the education myself, but frequently find myself trying to learn something new all the time. Please, make more of these videos, you were very engaging and fun to watch / listen to. Thank you.

  • @PeerAdder
    @PeerAdder Před 8 dny +17

    14:07 - the headline about "a massive waste of money" comes from people who seem to think that when we spend money it gets piled up into a bonfire and burned. No, it goes back into the economies of the countries involved. It gets collected again as taxes, goes into savings accounts, gets invested and recirculated. The number also seems large but only because we're stupidly impressed by lots of zeroes. $22 billion is about the same as the annual budget of NASA, which is only about the 23rd largest US federally funded organisation. The US spends a similar amount each year on railway pensions.

    • @franciscosegura2020
      @franciscosegura2020 Před 4 dny

      Imagine to believe in Keynes. What a laught. Please, check your economic studies before your country enters into an economic crisis.

  • @jweaver6862
    @jweaver6862 Před 8 dny +66

    I'm lucky enough to know a physicist who doesn't mind explaining Everything that I barely comprehend! Great Video Cleo!

  • @RamKrishna-xi6lo
    @RamKrishna-xi6lo Před 10 dny +64

    Internet needs people like you, Cleo. You wonderfully put things together for an average human brain to understand things.

    • @CTFlyer7
      @CTFlyer7 Před 10 dny +1

      I think we have quite enough system bots already.

    • @RamKrishna-xi6lo
      @RamKrishna-xi6lo Před 10 dny +6

      @@CTFlyer7 yeah, one bot just replied to my comment.

    • @richardgoldenberg814
      @richardgoldenberg814 Před 9 dny

      Really, dude!!! There are a dozen of other people that are more informative, professional and not annoying as she. They also don't pitch personal products in the middle of the video just like she did 👎👎👎👎. Most of the work and editing here is done by the team, she only reads off prompter. Stop licking 👅👅 👞👞

  • @washy3
    @washy3 Před 8 dny

    Literally the only CZcamsr I can watch a whole 10 thousand hour video and still wouldn't get bored keep it up

  • @robscoggins
    @robscoggins Před 5 dny +1

    Well, that was almost 18 units out of my simulated existence that my character will never get back.

  • @mistersir3185
    @mistersir3185 Před 13 dny +51

    That's why her channel is so unique. She can explain anything in a way that anyone could understand in such a captivating way. That ending was beautifully said.

  • @RyanVitt
    @RyanVitt Před 13 dny +53

    Thanks for always making me feel like there's hope for the world. Its tough sometimes, but your videos really showcase the great people who are doing so many great things.

  • @Dave-H
    @Dave-H Před 6 dny +1

    Cleo, between you, Veritasium and Kurzgesagt, you have inspired me to learn more about everything, and for that I thank you deeply.

  • @jeromehestroffer3198
    @jeromehestroffer3198 Před 2 dny +1

    By far one of your best script!! thanks for your passion Cleo!!!

  • @lathikamihiranga
    @lathikamihiranga Před 12 dny +10

    Cleo is probably one of the best person to have a conversation considering the range of topics she's covered

  • @jonathancohen2506
    @jonathancohen2506 Před 11 dny +26

    Cleo- you’re a scientist and a poet. You and the content you create makes the internet a better, smarter, and more hopeful place. Thank you!

  • @hamdosh3652
    @hamdosh3652 Před dnem

    THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST CZcamsRS I’VE EVER SEEEEEEEEEN!!
    Great content, Great story telling, Great shooting, Great editing..
    everything about it is amazing.
    Many thanks to the team delivering this content. Wishing you all the best ❤️

  • @aryasantra0006
    @aryasantra0006 Před 7 dny

    Hi Ma'am I'm Arya and I want u to know that, u r a true visionary who creates visionaries! The way u narrate the way u create the videos, they just hit different from others . They are heart touching! I mean, whenever I open utube and watch your videos it truly makes my day, keeping me cheered up as giving me the feeling to be a part of this certain civilization of a certain species of a certain planet in a certain solar system! It sends shivers down my spine when talk about the boundaries we can hit, the things we can achieve! 🤩
    Even though I'm a random kid with non scientific academics intersted in arts and creative works I just always feel attached to science, not just science more like knowledge on how everything works and the vastness of this existence and everything! I mean I don't understand that much of the calculations even though I try hard and maybe that's why sometimes I feel ashamed😔to say my opinions out loud because I'm not a person from scientific or technical background but watching you rises the enthusiasm inside me ! 🙂🙂
    I don't know why I wrote this big of a comment but I just truly wanted u to know that, again u made my day !
    Lots of lots of loves from india ! 🤗

  • @numbersandsports4206
    @numbersandsports4206 Před 11 dny +100

    Think of how far humans have come in just the last 150 years to imagine, plan, prepare and execute a project like this. Amazing.

    • @MrAmitkr007
      @MrAmitkr007 Před 10 dny +5

      Not last 150 years. This is how anything works. You keep pushing, a long plateau followed by huge rise

    • @ivok9846
      @ivok9846 Před 10 dny +7

      i'm thinking what they gained with it: nothing.
      except few fathers being proud of their daughters, it seems...

    • @Ronnet
      @Ronnet Před 10 dny

      ​@@ivok9846go back 150 years and tell me there weren't massive improvements in our understanding of the world such as our medical knowledge and the social systems that allowed an increasing number of people to benefit. Go back another 150 years, and another. You'll find that the improvements become less and less. We really have ramped up our capabilities in the last 150 years. Those fathers should be proud of their children who are taking part in the betterment of humankind. What are you contributing besides being negative Nancy online?

    • @MartijnPennings
      @MartijnPennings Před 10 dny +1

      I'd love to see a video about how this project came about. How do you get the idea to build this? And then the plans? And then the money? It must have been an uphill battle for the people who built this to convince people, universities and even countries to invest in this crazy project.

    • @ZwaetschgeRaeuber
      @ZwaetschgeRaeuber Před 10 dny

      1. Scientific discoveries:
      - Discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983[1]
      - First observations of antinuclei[4]
      - Discovery of direct CP violation in the NA48 experiment[4]
      - In 2000, the Heavy Ion Programme discovered a new state of matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma[4]
      - Isolation of antihydrogen atoms in 2010 and maintaining them for over 15 minutes in 2011[4]
      - Discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, confirming the Standard Model of particle physics[1][4]
      - Discovery of pentaquarks in 2015[3]
      2. Technological innovations:
      - Development of the World Wide Web in 1989 to allow scientists to share information[4][5]
      - Advancement of particle accelerator and detector technologies that have found applications in fields like medical diagnosis and therapy, computer chip manufacturing, etc.[5]
      - Development of Grid computing to process the vast amounts of data collected by the LHC experiments[5]
      3. Training and inspiration:
      - CERN provides extensive knowledge and skills to researchers, especially those early in their careers. Researchers who engage with CERN earn 12% more on average throughout their working life.[2]
      - Runs programs to encourage young people to pursue science, training teachers and allowing students to visit and participate in research[2]
      4. Economic and societal benefits:
      - Every Swiss franc invested in upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider is estimated to generate 1.8 Swiss francs in societal benefits through technology transfer, training, cultural activities, etc.[6]
      - UK companies supplying CERN have gained improved reputation and significant contracts[2]
      In summary, CERN has enabled groundbreaking fundamental physics discoveries, driven cutting-edge technological innovations that benefit other fields, provides valuable scientific training and inspiration, and generates economic and societal benefits that exceed the investments made.
      ​@@ivok9846

  • @dadunce7273
    @dadunce7273 Před 12 dny +22

    You make me love science the way my teachers can’t. Thank you

  • @devanshnaman4874
    @devanshnaman4874 Před 4 dny

    the kind of passion and energy you have in your words makes us wanna try

  • @SuperMTight
    @SuperMTight Před 9 dny +30

    You made a bunch of great videos on this channel, but this one is your best yet. It's so much complex content, looking back and forward, all condensed into a comprehensible and captivating video, with a beautiful, positive, and motivating note at the end. Fantastic, Cleo and team! With all these horrible, destructive things happening in the world right now, with humanity showing its dark side all the time, this is really uplifting. Thanks for your hard and awesome work!

  • @taknothing4896
    @taknothing4896 Před 11 dny +45

    This is science journalism done right. You've got my appreciation.

    • @cheetah100
      @cheetah100 Před 10 dny +3

      Only it isn't. Good production values, but acting as a PR agent for the new collider rather than being objective.

    • @GH0ST369
      @GH0ST369 Před 9 dny

      Unlike COVID, set us back to trust science...

    • @paulsengupta971
      @paulsengupta971 Před 8 dny

      @@GH0ST369 Only for the ignorant.

  • @fatboy1993v
    @fatboy1993v Před 7 dny +2

    Build a Time Machine to understand everything

  • @DanKeeleyMusic
    @DanKeeleyMusic Před 8 dny +2

    Thank you for doing this video. I've often tried to understand the Large Hadron Collider, but it's always overexplained. You did a great job and now I feel pretty I finally understand what a massive feat this machine is.

  • @neelanshguptaa310
    @neelanshguptaa310 Před 13 dny +8

    I so love the enthusiasm and giddy excitement with which she makes her videos. It's so nice to see someone really enjoy their work the way she does.

  • @dmor3359
    @dmor3359 Před 13 dny +28

    One of my favorite CZcams videos of yours. Great job! Oh, and I still love your voice and enthusiasm. :)

  • @mrpogz
    @mrpogz Před 13 hodinami +1

    Is it possible that our eyes were limited by the creator so we can not see the dark matter?... 🤔🤔

  • @crawn14
    @crawn14 Před 8 dny +1

    This video fills me with determination! Thanks Cleo! We can achieve a better future together!

  • @onyx3019
    @onyx3019 Před 13 dny +45

    one quick note ,elon musk spent double the 22b to buy twitter

    • @mitchellmeeuwesen6671
      @mitchellmeeuwesen6671 Před 11 dny +6

      What is always the obsession with Elon Musk and how he spend HIS money? You know... work weeks, months, years 18 hours a day with all the stress and headache it brings. So once you successfully have changed the world and made billions some person online can be sour about how you spend your fortune.

    • @ZaynomR
      @ZaynomR Před 11 dny

      @@mitchellmeeuwesen6671be fr…

    • @izzytoons
      @izzytoons Před 10 dny

      @@mitchellmeeuwesen6671 Trust me, he did NOT earn ALL that money. Like Trump, he screwed a lot of other people out of their money along the way. Both he and trump stiffed a lot of vendors. I'm not saying he isn't smart and he hasn't worked hard and he doesn't deserve a lot of money, but many people do that and don't take as much. Go back and look at how he interacted with his counterparts at each of the companies he been involved in while he grew his wealth. Look at how he treats his investors, de-valuing his companies by engaging in ourageous, politically charged social behavior. Look at how he treats his employees. Look at how he treats Americans, when he compares them to Chinese. Look at how he treats the government, which has provided significant funding to p-retty much every single one of his companies, whether it is contracts, tax breaks, tax breaks to incentivize his customers, etc. The guy asked how much it would cost to solve world hunger. The answer $44 billion. He turned right around and bought Twitter for $42B instead. He decided he'd rather have the world's biggest megaphone. Stop worshipping.

    • @kiimiLol
      @kiimiLol Před 10 dny +15

      @@mitchellmeeuwesen6671I think his point was that the same amount of money was used to buy just an app which you can argue doesn’t do much to make humanity better, therefore, spending 22billion on this wouldn’t be as extreme as they’re making it seem. It’s not about Elon Musk, is the fact that it is not unfeasible to consider spending that amount on something that could advance us as a species when it gets invested in trivial things as twitter. Clearly this amount of money is being casually spent all around the world by those who have the means to. Governments would be better off funding this than wars or other bs that they do.

    • @dipayanbarman5139
      @dipayanbarman5139 Před 10 dny

      ​@@izzytoons and it's the common people's attention that made him so rich , his company is overvalued and I just want to witness if his bubble bursts, I am eager to know whether facts will get a defeat from lies or vice-versa.

  • @MartinCharles
    @MartinCharles Před 12 dny +8

    Cleo, I love that you're actually excited about the things you cover.

  • @rishseth
    @rishseth Před 8 dny

    You explained it exteremely well!! Thank you so much for the great great explanation. the size comparison was simply awesome.

  • @thetransformer6780
    @thetransformer6780 Před 7 dny

    I found Clara’s channel recently, you probably saw it too and that’s why you made this video, very interesting.

  • @alecmisra4964
    @alecmisra4964 Před 9 dny +24

    They built it to confirm the higgs boson. They want a bigger one to confirm super symmetry. The problem is if they do not succeed they just ask for a bigger one.

    • @wrathofgrothendieck
      @wrathofgrothendieck Před 9 dny +1

      Maybe in a millennia they will understand the laws of quantum gravity.

    • @ebd321
      @ebd321 Před 6 dny +2

      Waste of time and resources

    • @stephanweinberger
      @stephanweinberger Před 6 dny

      @@ebd321 I guess you'd have said exactly the same to Newton or Heisenberg... (both of which contributed to building the very device you were using to write this comment).

  • @DamiantenBohmer
    @DamiantenBohmer Před 13 dny +27

    Seriously, you have just described how they squeeze and smash the protons together better than anybody I have heard, watched or listened to; just showing the scale of the Atlas sensor and then the hair and then how they relate to the Earth and down was awesome. Thank you for all your videos; your enthusiasm for science is tremendous. 😃

  • @kevman2296
    @kevman2296 Před 7 dny

    Such an amazing video! Thanks for the insights on this topic. As a contrast to all the bad news you see on television all day it is refreshing to see that there is hope for our species

  • @gerartv
    @gerartv Před 8 dny

    Damm I’m so grateful I randomly bumped into this channel. We need more people like her and more channels like this.
    Thank you.

  • @rblew131
    @rblew131 Před 13 dny +8

    You're positively killing it, Cleo. Keep up this incredible work!

  • @nicolasrobertgunn
    @nicolasrobertgunn Před 11 dny +11

    This is a ridiculously good video, and I don't say that often. Great work, Cleo and team!

  • @Stevielee8126
    @Stevielee8126 Před 8 dny

    I watched it till the end. It was amazing! Now finally I get to virtually watch what happen inside CERN. THANK YOU 😊

  • @prajjwaldangal2022
    @prajjwaldangal2022 Před 6 dny

    great content and storytelling. I once worked at a linear accelerator where scientists sent electron bunches and noticed there were a variety of experiments being done on a time-to-time basis, so imagine something similar at CERN as well

  • @radicant7283
    @radicant7283 Před 11 dny +84

    And yet we've got people who still think Earth is flat lmao.

    • @CN3891
      @CN3891 Před 10 dny +5

      And people still disagree with Michelson-Morley. Don’t conflate legitimate disagreement with stupidity. And don’t set up straw men.

    • @meikelwupp7044
      @meikelwupp7044 Před 10 dny +1

      @@CN3891?

    • @ryugo7713
      @ryugo7713 Před 10 dny +10

      @@CN3891 it’s adorable how you cling to the notion that dissenting views are just as valid as established scientific principles. Your intellectual gymnastics truly inspire awe. Keep fighting the good fight against those pesky straw men!

    • @asherstribe5695
      @asherstribe5695 Před 10 dny

      @@CN3891the earth is flat is NOT a legitimate disagreement. It’s the symptom of a crumbling society that won’t acknowledge facts. Such as men can become women or you must take a rushed vaccine to stop the spread of Covid.

    • @newtonbelieved
      @newtonbelieved Před 10 dny +3

      And we've got thousands of scientists who can't even grasp astrology, LMAO. I use it every single day to check out amazing things in the world, the bigger joke is on you.

  • @getmorphed
    @getmorphed Před 9 dny +36

    I have learned more about CERN from this video than any other. Great graphics and pacing. Thanks Cleo.

  • @antoinettejoubert
    @antoinettejoubert Před 8 dny +1

    Had the privilege to accompany students to Cern and it was one of the highlights ofmy life!! I am still gobsmacked! 🇿🇦

  • @andredias5061
    @andredias5061 Před 8 dny +1

    higgs face during the award was priceless, a mixture of pride and disbelief

  • @doctortrouserpants1387
    @doctortrouserpants1387 Před 10 dny +5

    This is the first time in my life that I got a real sense of the size of a proton, so thank you for that!

  • @muditagarwal8642
    @muditagarwal8642 Před 9 dny +36

    The conclusion touched a nerve. It was very beautifully written and elicits empowering affirmations.

    • @Lee-tt2yb
      @Lee-tt2yb Před 8 dny +1

      @muditagarwal8642
      Worrying about what hypothetical aliens think? Like, keeping up with the galactic Joneses?

    • @miinyoo
      @miinyoo Před 8 dny +1

      Also terrifying hubris. It goes both ways.

  • @michelcombes9965
    @michelcombes9965 Před 4 dny

    Having visited the LHC a few years ago, I still feel the same goosebumps and tears of love and compassion for humanity every time I recall the collision chamber. @Cleo, your video triggered these emotions within me. When humans stand on the brink of witnessing the creation of the universe through collisions, we are faced with a profound symbolism. These collisions can either manifest the presence of a divine force or potentially destroy everything : The complex interplay between creation and destruction, the view of these "god detectors" being at a place where new matter is made is incredibly powerful that all my cells are immersed with an immense love for humanity. We have only one chance to get things right; let's approach it with consciousness.

  • @javiermifsud4001
    @javiermifsud4001 Před 6 dny +1

    Imagine if we 10x the budget for this kind of amazing science. The things we could do ❤

  • @ivy5935
    @ivy5935 Před 11 dny +4

    Thank you Cleo for all your amazing and informative videos! They are not just interesting but also „fun“ to watch. Thank you!

  • @soulwarrior
    @soulwarrior Před 12 dny +18

    Man, the production quality is really something else.
    The way you broke down all of this information (that isn't easy to grasp for someone that's not deep into the topic) is amazing. You have an excellent talent for teaching and as many others have pointed out, your affection for the topic is infectious. 🙂

  • @Smi7h1sH3r3
    @Smi7h1sH3r3 Před dnem +1

    thanks for helping me understand what the heck the hadron collider was all about! super fascinating.

  • @SatyakiTat
    @SatyakiTat Před 4 dny

    Thanks for the video Cleo. Amazing work!

  • @WajidRiyaz
    @WajidRiyaz Před 8 dny +3

    Loved the ending!
    The way you said it & the perspective behind it was motivational and hopeful for us all.
    Thank you for such awesome content 👏

  • @MrAlecPinnock
    @MrAlecPinnock Před 10 dny +6

    I'm glad people like you are making videos like this!! The universe is insane

  • @meganmclove7693
    @meganmclove7693 Před 7 dny

    thisss is amazing Cleo... thanks for this. love u

  • @masterofktulu
    @masterofktulu Před 6 dny

    Your teams journalism is a national treasure, Cleo!

  • @ministartist.fousta1093
    @ministartist.fousta1093 Před 11 dny +4

    Best episode you produced imo. Thank you so much for putting this together 💗💯

  • @acekunz422
    @acekunz422 Před 12 dny +3

    these videos are always so well done. it’s amazing. gotta love cleo

  • @dr.python
    @dr.python Před 3 dny +1

    The truth is: we’ll never find out.
    If you observe the nature of our existence you’ll realize it truly is _”next level”,_ building entrapments for hopes of resolving curiosity is not the way forward because it is simply guaranteed to introduce more questions than it answers, however if you truly wish for a more satisfying and fulfilling outcome all you have to do is search for what solves your current problems rather than asking what’s behind the curtains “just for fun”.

  • @drwex
    @drwex Před 3 dny

    I love your attitude. Passion and wonder. I knew all the facts in this video and still would watch it again just to bathe in that infectious enthusiasm.

  • @jml_53
    @jml_53 Před 13 dny +19

    Great video. I'm a lifelong physics geek. I appreciate the inside look at this incredible facility, and remember being very excited when they announced the discovery of the Higgs.
    I also remember when the US was planning the superconducting supercollider in the early 90s and was disappointed when it was dropped from the budget. We had Fermilab but clearly needed to go to the next level. CERN got us there, but now we are at a similar decision point.
    This time, I'm less convinced that we need the next step. What do we expect to find at higher energy? What would have more MASS?
    All of our previous colliders had pretty clear objectives. Fermi was built to search for the quarks; CERN was built for Higgs. They found them, but they had strong expectations that they would be found at these energies.
    We don't have predictions of particles with larger MASS (aside from supersymmetric particles that look increasingly unlikely). I also don't buy into the dark matter justification. There isn't any convincing theory that says dark matter will be made of high MASS particles. All of our experience says that particles like to live in low-energy ground states. Everything we create at high energy quickly decays. There isn't any reason to believe that dark matter has an unusually MASSive ground state. Nothing contradicts it, but this is a lot of money to spend without theoretical support.
    Similarly, the idea that we'll learn more about things we know about is true, but are we really just increasing our confidence and precision? Is there an upper limit to useful experiments? I feel we need more theory to guide investments that large.
    The idea that we can find dark matter rides on an assumption that it interacts with regular matter through something other than gravity. If not, we may never see it. The only reason we see neutrinos is because they have a weak force interaction. If they didn't, we wouldn't see them either. Higher energies won't necessarily enable us to see something that doesn't interact with matter. Conservation laws also likely preclude decays that cross the dark/ordinary matter boundary. You might need something that has a quantum number like 'dark charge' to balance things out and enable the creation of dark matter.
    There are lots of great opportunities to spend our limited basic research funding. I think finding/ explaining dark matter/energy are high priorities. I'm just not sure this is the best use of those funds right now. Despite how long it will take to plan and build the next one, I think we need to hold off for a bit.

    • @anonymes2884
      @anonymes2884 Před 9 dny +1

      Actually, I think it's that "not knowing where to look next" that _might_ justify the FCC. Not sure if you're aware but the _first_ phase actually _isn't_ a higher energy LHC, it's a new and improved LEP (the LHC's precursor) which would be focused on generating and analysing W, Z and Higgs bosons. To me that actually seems like a reasonable prospect for finding new physics because the Higgs is, y'know, a bit weird :) (spin 0, various coupling types/strengths etc.) - looking at it in detail, at scale, for clear SM deviations could be fruitful.
      The higher energy LHC equivalent wouldn't be until phase 2, probably around the 2070s (but fair enough, a lot of the cost will surely be the tunnel itself and you need that for phase 1 - that could be an argument for a different build, a linear accelerator for instance). If we can _plan_ it cheaply enough then we should certainly be doing _that_ now IMO but otherwise hold off until LHC shutdown (currently 2035 ish) - there's still a further LHC upgrade to come before then, maybe those results will suggest a new direction.

  • @aydenkinley1387
    @aydenkinley1387 Před 11 dny +3

    This is the best video I have seen in a very long time! Keep up the good work!!!

  • @IkerUnzu
    @IkerUnzu Před 7 dny +4

    I'm in love with this video. It's so well-made and incredibly amazing in its explanations. I loved every part of it. It makes me want to learn more and more about the topic!! Thank you :)

  • @maki6450
    @maki6450 Před 4 dny

    What a great video, we’re not just a world of conflict, we are people with curiosity and passion, and yet we have so much more to find out about the greatness of the universe we live in, we are so small but so incredible.

  • @doziegamerz8363
    @doziegamerz8363 Před 11 dny +4

    No joke Cleo you and your team are really good at what you do, I can't imagine you guys actually doing a better job than this.
    And also thank you!❤

  • @KingdomCitizen7
    @KingdomCitizen7 Před 9 dny +19

    So they have billions of dollars to find a bump on a spreadsheet... but not enough to create reliable safe and efficient public transportation...

    • @anthonyfaccaro7118
      @anthonyfaccaro7118 Před 9 dny +3

      How about the suppression of free energy?

    • @rudolfsykora3505
      @rudolfsykora3505 Před 9 dny +2

      What do you think about magnetic resonance or Internet?

    • @ccg2301
      @ccg2301 Před 9 dny +4

      That bump could give answers on every problems we seek to solve and that includes your concern about efficient transportation.

    • @essaly7969
      @essaly7969 Před 9 dny +3

      Public transportation is really good in Switzerland.

    • @paulsengupta971
      @paulsengupta971 Před 8 dny

      "not enough to create reliable safe and efficient public transportation" - hmm? That exists.