The Science of the Large Hadron Collider
20 November - 12 mins
Podcast Series
Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill
Ireland has finally joined CERN as an associate member, opening the doors of the world’s biggest scientific instrument to Irish researchers for the first time. And what a machine to step into. This week, Professor Luke takes us deep inside the Large Hadron Collider — the 27-kilometre, super-cooled, magnet-driven particle racetrack buried under the Franco-Swiss border, where protons are hurled around at 99.99991% of the speed of light and slammed together to reveal the hidden architecture of reality itself. It’s a place colder than outer space, powered by magnets a hundred thousand times stronger than Earth’s gravity, and fuelled by Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc², made real at staggering...
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