Of tinfoil here. Most famously, cern is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds biggest machine, built to examine the universes smallest particles. It smashes them together at almost the speed of light, and the last time i was here, it made me cry. Cern lets us do science that no individual country could do by itself, so we can build fantastic machines like the Large Hadron Collider big, complex International Projects where the world comes together to do it. The thing about this place though is that the stuff that goes on here is highly theoretical and experimental, and it kind feels really abstract and not really relevant to our everyday lives, but plenty of stuff that has been developed here has filtered down to the real world. Well, the high energy beams that are whizzing around cern are created by Particle Accelerators big ones. But there are many, many smaller ones around the world, and some of those are in hospitals, and they are being used to treat something that will affe
Most famously, cern is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds biggest machine, built to examine the universes smallest particles. It smashes them together at almost the speed of light, and the last time i was here, it made me cry. Cern lets us do science that no individual country by itself, so we can build fantastic machines like the Large Hadron Collider big, complex International Projects where the world comes together to do it. The thing about this place though is that the stuff that goes on here is highly theoretical and experimental, and it kind feels really abstract and not really relevant to our everyday lives, but plenty of stuff that has been developed here has filtered down to the real world. Well, the high energy beams that are whizzing around cern are created by Particle Accelerators big ones. But there are many, many smaller ones around the world, and some of those are in hospitals, and they are being used to treat something that will affect a great many of us duri
To the tumour instead of on several seconds, for example. You condense it in milliseconds. For a physicist, this should not make any difference, but it seems like when you deliver radiation like this, the tumour gets damaged, the healthy tissue does not get damaged, and of course it could be Game Changing because you could forget everything about damaging surrounding tissues, etc, and it is as if the particles would know, this is a healthy cell, this is a cancer cell. Now, we have got recent results, not published yet, that seems to indicate that we do spare the normal tissue and we might do even more damage to the tumour, so it might be even better than people say it is. Flash is tremendously exciting, and i think it is a bit watch this space. Back at cern, i am visiting a project that is looking for a different way to specifically target cancer. This robot is handling a Radioactive Material created by cerns medicis experiment, which is looking at doing something really cool with it.
to the tumour instead of on several seconds, for example. you condense it in milliseconds. for a physicist, this should not make any difference, but it seems like when you deliver radiation like this, the tumour gets damaged, the healthy tissue does not get damaged, and of course it could be game changing because you could forget everything about damaging surrounding tissues, etc, and it is as if the particles would know, this is a healthy cell, this is a cancer cell. now, we have got recent results, not published yet, that seems to indicate that we do spare the normal tissue and we might do even more damage to the tumour, so it might be even better than people say it is. flash is tremendously exciting, and i think it is a bit watch this space. back at cern, i am visiting a project that is looking for a different way to specifically target cancer. this robot is handling a radioactive material created
by cern s medicis experiment, which is looking at doing something really cool with it. they can attach it to specially engineered molecules that you can inject into the body and which will only stick to cancer cells. now, when that happens, the radioactive material shines like a beacon, and it can be picked up on scanners, so suddenly you can see exactly where the cancer is. then you can do something that i think sounds even better. you can attach a different type of radioactive material to those engineered molecules, and when they stick to the cancer cells, the radioactive material kills only the cancer cells. and they leave everything else around it unharmed. this combination of therapeutics and diagnostics is called theranostics, and its use in the treatment of some prostate cancers