Watching CERN, a documentary about the Large Hadron Collider built at the Swiss-French border for advanced research into particle physics.
Thousands of scientists and data users from 70 countries cooperate in the work, leading one professor to remark that their common language is "broken English". Anyway they rounded up some speakers of English quite better than that for the film and there's a veritable raft of subtitle options...
I have no clue how the facility builders and maintenance staff know how the heck to trace faults or to extend capacities of the LHC: it's a complete maze of brightly colored cages, catwalks, wires and cables and tunnels all designed to force particles to collide head on at nearly the speed of light to analyze "what happens" in the ensuing sub-microscopic train-wrecks.
So humbling to realize that as we further work to support or dismantle current particle theory at the LHC, we are still focused on continuing to explain to ourselves just the 4% of our known universe that we call "matter", with the rest of our universe remaining shrouded in mystery and conjecture about its dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%). Gives weight to the idea that anything is possible, eh?
Thousands of scientists and data users from 70 countries cooperate in the work, leading one professor to remark that their common language is "broken English". Anyway they rounded up some speakers of English quite better than that for the film and there's a veritable raft of subtitle options...
EDIT: lol well the subtitle dudes might be better at broken English than at particle physics. They have one guy in there translated as speaking about "X possums" rather than "X bosons" when discussing Gauge theory of particle physics. Cracked me up. Wrong branch of science, to so speak.
I have no clue how the facility builders and maintenance staff know how the heck to trace faults or to extend capacities of the LHC: it's a complete maze of brightly colored cages, catwalks, wires and cables and tunnels all designed to force particles to collide head on at nearly the speed of light to analyze "what happens" in the ensuing sub-microscopic train-wrecks.
So humbling to realize that as we further work to support or dismantle current particle theory at the LHC, we are still focused on continuing to explain to ourselves just the 4% of our known universe that we call "matter", with the rest of our universe remaining shrouded in mystery and conjecture about its dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%). Gives weight to the idea that anything is possible, eh?
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