This week, we are going atomic at the European Organization for nuclear research, cern. We will look at the cutting edge Cancer Treatments that are foxing the physicists. I find it fascinating because it does not talk to my physics brain. So, i am curious to see whether it will bring something or not. How does science become fiction . We will meet an author looking for disaster. We want conflict. We want to see things falling apart. That is where the interesting thing is for a fiction writer. And then there is a scientist with an experiment that could change our understanding of everything. That is a completely unanticipated result new physics and probably a nobel prize for somebody who happens to be involved. Cern is one of the most Famous Centres for science in the world. On the border of switzerland and france, this place has been expanding our horizons for decades. Its High Energy Physics research has helped reveal the secrets of our existence. And i have been allowed in it to meet
Famous centres for science in the world. On the border of switzerland and france, this place has been expanding our horizons for decades. Its High Energy Physics research has helped reveal the secrets of our existence. And i have been allowed in it to meet some of those at the cutting edge. 2500 people work here. 12,000 more pour over the results of the experiments. Here at cern it is a really unique community. It is an International Group of people, so we are from all over the world. Cern is an exciting melting pot of projects and ideas. You see people in restaurantl having tea with their friends and they work on a myriad of different projects. You can knock on the door of a Nobel Prize Winning scientist, ask them a question, and they will say, come in. Lets talk about it and have a coffee. Any young boy or girls dream to work in science, right, is to go to a place which is like a town of science, and that is what cern really is. Its buzzing with the ideas. Its also buzzing with energ
been developed here has filtered down to the real world. we will look at the benefits to medicine in a few minutes, but in the early 70s, this place already had touchscreens. and cern was also the birthplace of the world wide web. have you heard of it? this computer was the first web server. what we are good at in science is managing data, so science experiments generate lots of data. what the web was to do was to share data between collaborators. that belief in sharing knowledge is what drives science collaborators like clara nellist, who, when she is not doing straight up particle physics here, is spreading the word on her socials. we want to understand how our universe works on the very, very smallest scales. i went to a school without a physics teacher, and so i know first hand what it is like to not have direct access to that information, and so part of the motivation for me
we will look at the benefits to medicine in a few minutes, but in the early 70s, this place already had touchscreens. and cern was also the birthplace of the world wide web. have you heard of it? this computer was the first web server. what we are good at in science is managing data, so science experiments generate lots of data. what the web was to do was to share data between collaborators. that belief in sharing knowledge is what drives science collaborators like clara nellist, who, when she is not doing straight up particle physics here, is spreading the word on her socials. we want to understand how our universe works on the very, very smallest scales. i went to a school without a physics teacher, and so i know first hand what it is like to not have direct access to that information, and so part
data between collaborators. that belief in sharing knowledge is what drives science collaborators like clara nellist, who, when she is not doing straight up particle physics here, is spreading the word on her socials. we want to understand how our universe works on the very, very smallest scales. i went to a school without a physics teacher, and so i know first hand what it is like to not have direct access to that information, and so part of the motivation for me is to make sure that anybody who can get online can learn about what we re doing here at cern. so, what can this place do more immediately for humanity? 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