Art McDonald Public Lecture: A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2 km Underground

Dr. Art McDonald explains how researchers created an ultra-clean lab two kilometres underground in an active nickel mine to study fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, during his Perimeter Institute Public Lecture on April 13, 2016.
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[@dean3850]

A brilliant scientist with a wonderful sense of humor & an extraordinary range of humility.🤯

[@DaytakTV]

Isn't science just wonderful?!? Seeing a 72 year old that is so passionate and engaged in a subject truly exemplifies the positive impact science has on those who do it. It is the greatest of human endeavors.

[@pinball1970]

run a mile then check the guy who can run it 1 minute faster than you who is 60. they are special.They are better than you or me at this.

[@naimulhaq9626]

Indeed. Focusing on a single and simple neutrino or wimp for the whole of your life is not a simple matter, particularly 2 miles underground. What conviction.! How do you prepare yourself for such a journey? Its like living in a prison cell for your entire life.

[@denvermoises1483]

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[@andersonmauricio209]

@Denver Moises yup, I've been watching on Flixzone} for months myself =)

[@bostonkane110]

@Denver Moises Yea, I have been using flixzone} for months myself =)

[@peterbuchan628]

A wonderful scientist ,with exceptional humility, and a brilliant sense of humour. Thank you to all concerned for this talk.

[@kennyfaulkner3447]

Wa

[@DavidSmith-ee6df]

Should have 1,000,000 views! Thanks pi!

[@KipIngram]

34;20 - The bit about lab cleanliness and Dr. McDonald's mother - that was really cute. I hope my mom is still around when I'm his age.

[@hmdshokri]

Thanks PI for sharing these talks.

[@KipIngram]

1:08:00 - Love that young man! Look at him go! How very cool!

[@glaswurm1]

Thanks KZbin and PI for sharing these extraordinary events. It is a valid privilege to experience a lecture of this quality by a veritable Nobel Prize winner. Who formerly was able to be part of this?

[@lisaadler507]

Dr. McDonald had instantly become my favorite speaker. Grateful for this video.

[@kroon275]

6:45 is the end of the intro's

[@anthonymannwexford]

Great Talk. Thank you for the upload.

[@marylousherman5471]

Cool lecture...complicated stuff presented well, with a little humor thrown in

[@nmarbletoe8210]

great speaker, steller all around! very nice camera work, sound, and editing.

[@DaytakTV]

I love that intro! I am a Physics major / Computing & Software Systems minor in Washington State and I would looove to come visit Perimeter Institute. I look forward to these lectures. Thank you!

[@oliverjamito9902]

Indeed. Thy shared I AM! Likewise remind unto all the Who am I? Likewise give Gratitude and Honor unto all the shared I AM scientists! Like my Pop! Is like what is the difference between Scientists Who am I? Nor I AM Scientists? Specially concerning Aim nor Aims! Nor whom influencing? While the True Owner keeping Watch! Among all the shared I AM Scientists sitting upon the NEW Table resting upon the NEW Permanent Foundation no one can uproot nor shaken but here to stay for good.

[@favnow234]

"It looks clean dear." -his Mom. LOL "Yellow submarine" LOL

[@inkitatus1]

Really splendid, Thankyou

[@MM-rr1kp]

what are some of the practical applications or technologies developed from these experiments?

[@six-missing]

So few views for such an interesting and informative lecture.

[@Stadtpark90]

I agree. I'm always looking for more / "new" information in popular science, and there is no way to tell in advance if I'm going to learn something new. If I was a scientist, I could read papers and magazines, but as a layman I need these kind of talks on youtube. Especially the graphs in the 2nd half of the talk were absolutely worth it: looking at where the boundaries are, and what new experiments will probe which regions and where the theoretical predictions of certain models are etc.

[@Stadtpark90]

+Stadtpark90 Not that I could actually do something with it, but it still confers the excitement and the optimism about what science is hoping to discover in the near future. I am following Sean Carrol's blog and his talks and when he says that he is confident that this is the decade where "we" will probably detect Dark Matter, now I know where his confidence is coming from.

[@Stadtpark90]

+Stadtpark90 "Sean Carroll" is the right spelling I think

[@MacNif]

This should have 7 Billion views

[@oliverjamito9902]

Thank you Pop! And Gratitude and Honor for ATTENDING UNTO OUR OWN! LOVE YOU TOO! Remembering ye once born, to crawling, to walking, and till now thy feet resting upon the NEW very tip of time. Thy Heirs and our Beautiful Scientists will say, "MILEAGE FROM THY FEET IS RECOGNIZE"! Pop at least I can do is to washed thy FEET to be given New Feet. To let ye know? Thy Little Child "i" AM. Who love with patience, mercy and grace. That i LOVE THEE! Gratitude and Honor unto thee! Likewise Gratitude and Honor knows belongs?

[@amedeofilippi6336]

Do we know enoughabout gravity so that DM has to be postulated? I mean the behaviour of stars in the galaxies why should be the same of planets orbiting our sun when these two systems are so much different?

[@kevinlyons5314]

I love PI!

[@goldenbuglab]

자막이 없는 게 아쉽네요. ^^;

[@mpfmax0]

Amazing experiment

[@thespitw9331]

I believe that it will be eventually shown that neutrinos are composed of two photons that are intimately twisted around each other as they travel through spacetime. The net speed is slightly less than c because of the increased relative distance they cover from the twisting motion. One of its component photons leads with a positive charge and the other leads with a negative charge. Neutrinos will be found to be a Majorana particle. But they will not annihilate each other because they are composed of E1 energy. Annihilation results when a particle and its antimatter particle both containing E2 energy converts their E2 energy to E1 energy. Since neutrinos are already E1 energy, they will not annihilate each other.

[@_a.z]

Amazing story!

[@willemfourie7954]

a. y .

[@IbnFarteen]

Why not design and construct the detector to be submerged a few hundred meters in the ocean instead of a terrestrial mine? I'd think you could shield from radioactive decay more easily and the bouancy of seawater could help support the entire device.

[@rodgersericv]

Seawater contains all kinds of elements that are radioactive. Even more so now that Fukushima is streaming radioactive substances into the Pacific Ocean continuously since the three nuclear meltdowns in 2011. The entire planet has been and continues to be contaminated. Some think it is an extinction level event in slow motion.

[@IbnFarteen]

@@rodgersericv Multiple choice question for you. Then I'd like to discuss. In your opinion, seawater contains: (A. much less, B. less, C. the same as D. more, E. much more) radioactive elements than the bedrock the existing detector is suspended in?

[@yitphady2852]

Good

[@VijayKumar-zu5ww]

"They are asking me to dumb it down a little bit" lolol

[@timelsen2236]

Even kids ask good questions, as shown here. They actually have heard of atoms before . You do not need to "dumb it down." That's from an ignorant administrators perspective. Also, retrain soap opera camera people to dwell on chalkboards of ignored equations, not facial shots. This is a systematic flaw across all on line lectures, or an aspect of excluding segments of the population from getting the most out of the otherwise fabulous lectures. Otherwise what is the point of museum style ignored chalkboards of equations? People in the auditorium get to gaze at these equations, not on line viewers. All they get is incessant streams of facial shots eclipsing the wallpaper of museum style ignored equations. This is what needs to be dumbed down, the lack of camera training!

[@rebokfleetfoot]

i'm astonished by the lack of understanding here, these guys belong on the back of a text book

[@yitphady2852]

Like it

[@TheDudeVonDude]

thankyou for say labratory, instead of la bor a tory

[@williambaker7181]

Is that a kodakan badge on his lapel?

[@brieneaton8578]

It is " The Order of Canada "

[@mobieus7]

35:30 So this is just a prototype for the detector in Antarctica completed in 2011. Makes sense that he is cracking jokes and talking about dust.

[@mirimirmiri3612]

I find it amazing how the community of scientific process has allowed an idea that explains nothing but the speed of light whith no idea of to where it started. While knowing full well that the speed of light had already been explained with the nicest e=mc2 you can ever find in the whole universe. What is particularly ugly in this case, is the fact that here was a chance to move from empire type of thinking philosophy of ( I am therefore I think, or I think therefore I must be clever, or was it, I think therefore I must be ) to real science, that of e=mc2. But everyone chose to go with " I think therefore I must be clever." Which knowingly very bad, unknowingly very dangerous is the exact reason of why one would come up with the primordial atom idea/theory (big bang) straight after e=mc2. An Atom has a form/mass, without light it is formless/without mass. By the way I am writing not much in relation to the videos. The videos and the teachers are amazing, may they be multiplied, this way we get moving a bit.

[@estuardozacarias7816]

Quiero ver comentarios en español😂😂

[@satoshinakamoto6626]

Sip.

[@XxxcloackndaggerxxX]

How does this knowledge feed the poor, heal the sick etc etc

[@sgtStones]

Better understanding of physics leads to a better understanding of reality. This leads to a more effective and efficient use of energy and ressources in general. Thus facilitating the feeding of the poor and the healing of the sick. Just as science has proven to do over and over again over the centuries. Glad I could be of help

[@rebokfleetfoot]

totally wrong about Albert and his constant, where does this stuff come from? not reality. not from Albert's publications. he put that in there to balance the equation but he did not like it because he did not have a physical explain for it, and you know what, we still don't

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[@whirledpeas3477]

A joke every 40 seconds is in itself a joke

[@markstarfish]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particle