CERN - Large Hadron Collider Podcast
Science Podcasts
Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox invites a series of unlikely guests around the biggest experiment in the history of the universe (well this one) ever. Is it a chat show? Is it an introduction to particle physics? Is it just a jolly day out in Gevena? Maybe all three.
Location:
United States
Description:
Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox invites a series of unlikely guests around the biggest experiment in the history of the universe (well this one) ever. Is it a chat show? Is it an introduction to particle physics? Is it just a jolly day out in Gevena? Maybe all three.
Language:
English
Episodes
Ed Vaizey
9/22/2008
Ed Vaizey is a UK Conservative member of Parliament and a keen supporter of funding in science. Brian invited him to CERN to look at the LHC from a politcal standpoint.
Duration:00:20:48
CMS - Jim Virdee
2/21/2008
Dr Brian Cox talks to Jim Virdee the spokesperson of CMS, the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, which together with its 'sister' detector, Atlas, will be looking for signs of the Higgs Boson.
Duration:00:12:10
The Dean Of Guildford Cathedral
11/30/2007
The Very Revd Victor Stock visited CERN and in a fascinating conversation with Dr Brian Cox centring the Religion v Science debate, both found there was more common ground than is generally accepted.
Duration:00:26:40
Quentin Willson
11/23/2007
Quentin Willson of Top Gear and Fifth Gear fame is a fan of engineering on a massive scale, so where better to go than to the LHC.
Duration:00:21:16
Kevin And Simon's Big Adventure - Part One
10/17/2007
Comedy writers and performers Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery explore CERN's biggest detector, ALTAS.
Duration:00:29:42
John Ellis
10/11/2007
Dr Brian Cox talks to CERN's head of Theoretical Physics Professor John Ellis about Super Symmetry, Super Strings, and a Super picture of Higgs in a bathing suit.
Duration:00:23:31
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
6/26/2007
Charles Jencks, landscape designer extraordinaire, talks to Dr Brian Cox about how he presents and represents the Universe in his work as one of the world's leading architects and is inspired by the ATLAS detector in the LHC.
Duration:00:31:28
Captain Jack Goes to CERN
4/5/2007
John Barrowman AKA Captain Jack from Torchwood and Dr Who talks to Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox at CERN. They visit the Large Hadron Collider - the biggest experiment in science ever ever in the Universe. But first they have lunch
Duration:00:27:33