What's Really Happening At CERN

The world’s most astonishing science experiment, simply explained.
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On the border between France and Switzerland is the biggest science experiment humanity has ever built. Over a 100 meters underground, there’s a tunnel 27 kilometers long in a big loop under nearby homes, businesses, and farms. Inside that tunnel, scientists built a blue tube big enough to crawl through, and inside that tube, they put two pipes that they keep colder and emptier than outer space. Down those pipes, they fire particles smaller than atoms in opposite directions…. and push them faster and faster… until when they’re almost at the speed of light… they SMASH TOGETHER.
This underground particle-smasher is also known as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It took thousands of scientists from over nearly 100 different countries $5 billion dollars and 30 years to plan and build.
My question is: Why? Why did they do that??? Why spend so much money and time to smash particles underground? And now… why do so many scientists say what we really need to do is build… a BIGGER one?
To answer those questions, we’re going on a journey all the way to Switzerland, to the particle smasher itself! And you’re never going to see yourself or the world around you the same way…
Chapters:
0:00 What’s happening at CERN?
1:31 What is the Large Hadron Collider?
2:32 How did they build the Large Hadron Collider?
3:43 How small is a proton?
4:51 How do they get protons to hit each other??
6:43 Why build this?
7:43 What happens when particles smash together?
8:47 What are elementary particles?
9:37 What is the Higgs Boson?
10:46 What did they find??
11:33 Why does this matter?
12:52 Why build a bigger collider?
13:48 What is the Future Circular Collider?
14:56 What else could we build?
15:56 Who do we want to be?
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular KZbin channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s KZbin Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- “Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment,” by Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl: • Inside the World's Lar...
- “The Higgs Boson, Part I,” by Minute Physics: • The Higgs Boson, Part I
- “The Higgs boson at 10 years,” by Dr Clara Nellist (one of our wonderful experts in this video!): • The Higgs boson at 10 ...
- “The Large Hadron Collider beam pipe: everything you didn't know you wanted to know,” by Dr Clara Nellist: • The Large Hadron Colli...
- “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 1” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
- “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 2” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
- “The Higgs Discovery Explained - Ep. 3” by CERN: • The Higgs Discovery Ex...
- “Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe,” by Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl: • Seeing the Smallest Th...
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Welcome to the joke down low:
Why did the Higgs Field get invited to church?
They wanted to have mass.
Find a way to use “mass” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description :)

[@yammietomogrady1322]

Took my daughter there as a gift when she graduated from university . Now she's a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Proud Dad

[@user-sj7he8mq5s]

Did you explain how it a huge waste of taxpayer dollars

[@MemoriesAreLost]

Exactly how close do I need to get to CERN before I become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow? And did it affect you too? 😋

[@snared_]

@@user-sj7he8mq5s what do you have against fundamental research?

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

​@@user-sj7he8mq5sif humanity listened to people like you we would still be living in caves eating slugs

[@NullScar]

Can you be my dad for a day and also bring me. I swear, I will not touch anything, but I will try to use my telekinesis ability, though. Only for research purposes, that is.

[@BharaniSai]

Loved the final note about how we want an Alien civilization to look at us as a scientific and curious race and not just a planet of conflict and mass destruction

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

in order for that to happen, humans need to solve ethics & justice issues first… not rush to research new tech that can be used dangerously by those in power…

[@3rdlegend445]

@@nuklearboysymbiotei love you both are talking about it like we know aliens’ intentions and thoughts 😂😂

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

@@3rdlegend445 i mean, we don't know how to communicate to ants, but we still know that there are massive empires and wars going on… actions are a more universal language than abstractions

[@aaryanjadhav2822]

I don't know how they will feel after knowing that the first use of necular tech was to build an extinction bomb.😂

[@Andreas.r2]

I too loved that cleo talks but i know this next collider will create argue and conflict between scientists and reserchers......i too love to go to space and meet at least one aliens gen who is probably not a planet eater.

[@frankijupiter]

For context... $17B is roughly 1 week of the US military budget. Just to give a little perspective.

[@podunkest]

Also pretty close to NASA's yearly budget, which is about 22-23 bn iirc.

[@ItsMrMetaverse]

I've been to CERN, the tech is very antiquated. That is to say, all their computers and servers are, the actually LHC is of course state of art. But because they are so poor as an institute, they don't even store their own data on drives, but still use TAPES (Cheaper they say.) They send everything to partners for analysis, other universities. The world spends BILLIONS every day on War... and only a few billion a year onscience.

[@EricBurbeck]

"I'll take contextual clues that are unrelatable to the point of irrelevance for...$17B" :P

[@tedebayer1]

still a lot for trying to make mini black holes... the ones that suck money into it

[@ArminiusReturn]

@ItsMrMetaverse wouldn't it be nice if they just spent $6 billion On the Border that's something that would have an immediate a benefit upon every citizen. For years to come. Possibly decades

[@josh-lewis]

I'm bald so I don't understand how small protons are.

[@iamcjamesgmail]

My Dink is large so I don't understand women.

[@user-jo8wz2ew4q]

Come on, You have to have one on your butt somewhere don't you?

[@Nitro15]

None of you were funny Lmao what now your still not funny

[@Russellsauce]

@@Nitro15 you no where grammar?

[@jamieclarke2694]

​@Nitro15 luckily for you, I'm funny... were*

[@j.d.cunegan302]

Find someone who looks at you the way Cleo looks at the CERN collider. Your passion and awe for this stuff is infectious.

[@user-xj5xp6qz5g]

[@user-qq2nj6lw1h]

The contemporary Muslim awareness course, and the psychology course, will teach you why the West lags behind the Islamic community.

[@TreCayUltimateLife]

Hah! Right. My parents don't even love me.

[@dlrabin]

Find Cleo and be a collider ;)

[@spvillano]

Had that for over 41 years, lost her just over two years ago.

[@ParticleClara]

Thanks for coming to visit us at CERN! It was fantastic to show you and the team our experiment and I love how the video came out! ☺

[@toaster143]

Thank you also, you're TikTok account is amazing please never stop!

[@AidenHere.]

Hello!

[@Nayr86]

On a serious note 🧐 It's a Stargate isn't it ?

[@TheJacklwilliams]

You all are so very cool! Im insanely jealous of what you get to experience! CERN is such an amazing place!

[@TT-zo6px]

So you guys know how to get antimatter, why turn it on when the "eclipse" was going on? Interesting how you guys have a statue in front of CERN that has a "portal"

[@viktorgoa]

I went there before the pandemic during the open days, when they had every part of LHC open. It was the best weekend of my life, this machine is truly an engineering masterpiece

[@ParticleClara]

So great to see this! :)

[@Ernthir]

Well done. You managed to explain everything in a very cool way without oversensationalizing it.

[@evanmyers580]

That size comparison of a grain of rice as a nucleus honestly blew my mind

[@TheGlobalProfessional]

It was a great aid in truly understanding the scale.

[@willcookmakeup]

And it truly made sense. So many of those scale videos are just not comprehensible at such large scales

[@BenjaminMilekowsky]

I can't believe we made of these unseen thiny particles, but it is what it is

[@evanmyers580]

@@BenjaminMilekowsky It's good to be skeptical, though if you'd like to look over some proofs, I'd look up Brownian motion as well as the gold foil experiment. Both provide pretty strong evidence of atomic theory

[@ashbody000]

Now think almost all the mass of the whole earth is concentrated in that rice

[@R4wF4ce]

Cleo is just out here living our nerd fantasies; working with NASA, Boston Dynamics, F1, CERN, etc. Thanks for bringing us along with you.

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

The realest nerd fantasy is simply having a girlfriend. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@VS-is9yb]

@DisposableSupervillainHenchman Nope. Cause there are a lot of women but CERN is unique.

[@ethanhilgert3995]

9:10 “this is a beautiful description” absolutely not. That’s a spaghetti bowl of random gibberish.

[@originzz]

@@DisposableSupervillainHenchmanscience is better

[@imkimayak]

I SWEAR

[@rushja]

Well put Cleo, science needs people like you to make it more accessible. The best thing about science is that it's a shared human experience in time, and we need to accelerate that knowledge

[@akshatsiuuu]

whenever i stop feeling excited about my career or science i watch one of your videos and it's amazing how you make us feel excited just as you are and thanks for that !!!!!!!!1

[@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy]

RIP Peter Higgs. As a lapsed particle physicist I actually cried during the Higgs Boson announcement scene. An amazing human and I'm so glad he got to see the actual detection of his proposed/theoretical particle.

[@MikeSmith-tx2lp]

@@eternity8811 so did I, be a great human.

[@king124kine]

@@eternity8811 Man you must hate your life

[@sfermigier]

Higgs Boson announcement, gravitational waves detection announcement, black hole image announcement: three major scientific discoveries (maybe the three most important discoveries of the last 15 years?) that were announced live on the internet. I'm glad that the digital age has enabled such significant moments in science to be shared globally in real time.

[@immortalfool7627]

He is in that quantum realm right now.

[@RobertDeloyd]

I got teared up at that scene too, but I didn't know he had passed until the end of this fine video ❤

[@abhigyan_tiwari5]

RIP Peter Ware Higgs... The giant genius of particle physics🙏🙏

[@schmantikor]

But everyone forgets that the Higgs Boson only lends its mass to electrons, so only 20 grams of an 80 kilogram person come from it.

[@TitusRex]

​@@schmantikor this is not true. Completely wrong. The Higgs field gives mass to various fundamental particles like quarks, leptons and electrons.

[@tonywells6990]

@@schmantikor Don't forget quarks, so about 0.8 kg.

[@ashifarman4813]

​@@schmantikorno they also give mass to your mom that why she is fato

[@BenjaminMilekowsky]

I can't believe we made of these unseen thiny particles, but it is what it is

[@YOLOBNB]

Where were you all this time? I loved this video. I am a Physics student currently doing my Masters. This video literally gave me a boost in my motivation to learn more.

[@robertfoertsch]

Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library… Thanks Cleo.

[@jacoboblanco1555]

I was immensely lucky to be able to work as part of the ATLAS collaboration and make a tiny tiny contribution. Amazing group of people from all over the worlds doing great work.

[@freemanrader75]

Everyone is working for money or out of passionate curiosity therefore nobody realizes what they are building, its purpose or who it’s for. I might be ugly but at least I ain’t got no money.

[@elodie9898]

I've been part of the ATLAS collaboration too! one of the best job experience I had

[@prem9501]

Huge respect

[@Ram-Jo]

Super cool

[@HadroN-1]

What exactly do I need to do , to be a nuclear physicist like them?

[@wompa70]

"Yep, it's a bump on a chart." This is part of why I learn so much from your videos.

[@jgleigh]

$17B is a bump on global defense spending. Just build it!

[@oldmech619]

And it is a small bump on the chart. I think CERN really hasn’t found anything big. Finding the Higgs really doesn’t mean much to science.

[@spvillano]

@@oldmech619 well, since mass isn't a big deal to you, neither is gravity. Feel free to step off of a roof and show us all how little mass and gravity mean to you.

[@oldmech619]

@@spvillano Gravity is not something we understand and may never understand the how and why it works. The Higgs bump does nothing to further the science.

[@styleguruful]

@@oldmech619 Yet. You can't say it has done nothing to further science when science is evolving minute by minute. You can say it did nothing to further science when this world ceases to exist, and you look back at the eons in retrospect.

[@noumanintown]

Thank you for making complex topics digestible and comprehensible, you have struck a great balance for the general public.

[@PeerAdder]

14:07 - the headline about "a massive waste of money" comes from people who seem to think that when we spend money it gets piled up into a bonfire and burned. No, it goes back into the economies of the countries involved. It gets collected again as taxes, goes into savings accounts, gets invested and recirculated. The number also seems large but only because we're stupidly impressed by lots of zeroes. $22 billion is about the same as the annual budget of NASA, which is only about the 23rd largest US federally funded organisation. The US spends a similar amount each year on railway pensions.

[@franciscosegura2020]

Imagine to believe in Keynes. What a laught. Please, check your economic studies before your country enters into an economic crisis.

[@chachakanjar]

Oh wow, did not know that Peter Higgs recently died! What a legacy that man left behind. From not taken seriously to finally seeing his theories in action must have been a delight. RIP

[@MiddlePath33]

He died during the eclipse

[@jeffcookdotau]

@@MiddlePath33 He died on the day of the eclipse, which was only partial in Edinburgh. What makes you believe that he passed away during one of the 12 minutes of the eclipse?

[@CraftySasquatch]

So many scientists from every field always suffer the same thing. For instance the ones claiming a micro nova caused by the 12k year cyclical galactic wave. Great news is we only have to wait until 2040. Until then we will see an increase in the so called m@n M@de CliEm@te ch@nge. Just ask them why is the cliEm@te ch@nging on other planets in our solar system.

[@raeofsunshine555]

@@jeffcookdotau hmm maybe not during, but there’s definitely a sync

[@emreyurtseven23]

Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites Cleo. The subject matter, production, pacing, narration etc. are all superb. Huge props to you and your team for bringing science & technology to masses in such a well executed way!

[@IkerUnzu]

I'm in love with this video. It's so well-made and incredibly amazing in its explanations. I loved every part of it. It makes me want to learn more and more about the topic!! Thank you :)

[@user-uk5qz9ui6p]

Outstanding presentation Cleo, stumbled onto your utube channel and subscribed immediately. Making complex topic understandable is an art

[@garz75]

I interned at CERN 30 years ago as a comp Sci student at the Web Office with the creators of the WWW: In a few months I accumulated such a big mass of knowledge and experience working with all kind of scientists and engineers! It shaped my whole career and method of work.

[@lindapratt119]

let's hope you're method of work includes empathy?

[@michelleplombe7019]

​@@lindapratt119What?

[@frensunited3748]

I'll bet they shaped your holes alright

[@Lemonz1989]

@@lindapratt119 Such an odd response…

[@naveenmanjhi5776]

@@lindapratt119your*

[@the_thunder_god]

Love that you went to CERN! My Dad (now retired) and I (taking care of my dad now) used to work at the previous largest collider, Fermilab, in Batavia, IL. Nothing having to do with the physics going on there, just supporting it. My dad was a HVAC engineer there. I had a few positions....cooperative education student...forklift driver, and web development contractor. Through our time there though, we definitely learned the basics about what goes on there. You really can't avoid it when you're working on stuff supporting it every day. We don't learn unless we try. I very much support trying.

[@grimskull416]

Thanks to you and your dad's work!

[@spvillano]

I'd love to just sit there and go over the magnet control circuitry. The timing has to be a bear to maintain precise control of!

[@sentient_dinosaurplush]

“We discover the building blocks now, so that our children can build with them later in ways we can’t possibly imagine.” That’s a beautiful way to look at it ❤

[@de-motivational-speaker]

I loved the excitement in ur voice while you're explaining the things. It shows how much you love the science to explain. the flow of information flowing in ur brain but your words can't keep up with the information. I feel the same when i talk about my favourite topics. I can feel you :)

[@soubhagyagrover2630]

This is easily my new favourite place to come to on the internet. I’ve never felt more proud of being part of this whole human project and be surrounded by folks like yall.

[@ezmadarlington942]

That’s a mistake !!! Stop drinking the cool aid or being injected

[@laststand6420]

It's amazing how much variety humanity holds

[@monetroshi]

Calm down… the discovery will most likely be used to harm other humans or the planet. That’s all we do

[@chillydoog]

Someone blew a load in the collider

[@fernandorosales2418]

A bunch of scientists trying to figure out the fabric of the universe while a bunch of politicians are salivating trying to figure out how this can make a bigger, better military weapon.

[@Birdgangg]

This is facts. There’s no way this would happen if that weren’t the underlying purpose.

[@PaulSzkibik]

@@Birdgangg Nope, it's still just an opinion unless you can actually provide proof. Which you may well be able to but so far, I don't think Cern has made any new weapon tech possible. So... do you have any actual proof (facts?) to back this claim up?

[@JerehmiaBoaz]

The fact that you can't use this research directly to produce military technology is an important reason for why the LHC wasn't built in the USA but in Europe.

[@loveszappa]

I think the point was that politicians WISH they could and absolutely would if it were possible…but science seems to bring out the condescending and superior attitude in many.

[@loveszappa]

@@PaulSzkibikhe didn’t make any claims, it was clearly conjecture based on historical facts. If you think politicians care about science, well, that explains it.

[@dr.python]

The truth is: we’ll never find out. If you observe the nature of our existence you’ll realize it truly is _”next level”,_ building entrapments for hopes of resolving curiosity is not the way forward because it is simply guaranteed to introduce more questions than it answers, however if you truly wish for a more satisfying and fulfilling outcome all you have to do is search for what solves your current problems rather than asking what’s behind the curtains “just for fun”.

[@casualdadgames]

This is quite possibly the best video I've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing this, I'll be showing it to my daughter later!

[@ReclaimerPC]

Really appreciated how you had the script fact checked. Loved how this production was able to explain the importance and impact of not only the LHC but all fundamental research. Well done, would LOVE to see more content like this in the future.

[@fibonacho]

Except for the part at 11:42 about Newton "couldn't possibly have imagined there would be humans on the moon nearly 300 years later." Of course he could have imagined that.

[@eel7157]

​@@fibonachoBAHAHAHA 💀💀💀💀💀

[@joel6376]

Yet no mention of demons or interdimensional portals.

[@danielglavas]

"Monuments dedicated to knowledge." That's a pretty way to put it!

[@Daniel9.13]

Knowledge is great the wisdom to appropriately use said knowledge is greater. Knowledge + Wisdom =🤍 Capiche ?

[@MrDStCyr]

Agree, I like that description as well

[@georgeyasko6882]

Cleo - another great topic! Thanks again for the hard work that you and your team do in putting these together. And I definitely would purchase a hat and shirt!!

[@mrpogz]

Is it possible that our eyes were limited by the creator so we can not see the dark matter?... 🤔🤔

[@sahilshah2392]

I have to say that this is the best influncer I have ever seen in this industry. Keep up the great work.Research and scripting are at their finest, so please continue.

[@garymartin9777]

A rival to Physics Girl. Poor thing is suffering a long illness so she's not doing anything new.

[@pthk2874]

@@garymartin9777never heard of her, thank you for sharing. Gonna give her a follow, don’t know what’s her illness but hope she gets better!

[@Astrolab.insights]

This video gave me chills so many times, in a very good way! Your words just felt really powerful and made my soul smile

[@nwcaymans]

Awesome presentation Cleo. Kudos to you for having the humility to have CERN review your script before publishing. Shows character.

[@MRCOHN]

The idea that particle collisions and scalar weapons could open a portal during a total eclipse is based on the theory that these events can cause disruptions in the fabric of spacetime. During a total eclipse, the moon blocks out the sun, creating a temporary distortion in the earth's electromagnetic field. In conjunction with the particle collisions and scalar weapons, which produce intense bursts of energy and can create localized disruptions in spacetime, it is theorized that this could create the conditions necessary for a portal to open. The science behind this involves a complex interplay of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and other aspects of theoretical physics, and is still largely speculative at this point.

[@jweaver6862]

I'm lucky enough to know a physicist who doesn't mind explaining Everything that I barely comprehend! Great Video Cleo!

[@numbersandsports4206]

Think of how far humans have come in just the last 150 years to imagine, plan, prepare and execute a project like this. Amazing.

[@MrAmitkr007]

Not last 150 years. This is how anything works. You keep pushing, a long plateau followed by huge rise

[@ivok9846]

i'm thinking what they gained with it: nothing. except few fathers being proud of their daughters, it seems...

[@Ronnet]

​@@ivok9846go back 150 years and tell me there weren't massive improvements in our understanding of the world such as our medical knowledge and the social systems that allowed an increasing number of people to benefit. Go back another 150 years, and another. You'll find that the improvements become less and less. We really have ramped up our capabilities in the last 150 years. Those fathers should be proud of their children who are taking part in the betterment of humankind. What are you contributing besides being negative Nancy online?

[@MartijnPennings]

I'd love to see a video about how this project came about. How do you get the idea to build this? And then the plans? And then the money? It must have been an uphill battle for the people who built this to convince people, universities and even countries to invest in this crazy project.

[@ZwaetschgeRaeuber]

1. Scientific discoveries: - Discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983[1] - First observations of antinuclei[4] - Discovery of direct CP violation in the NA48 experiment[4] - In 2000, the Heavy Ion Programme discovered a new state of matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma[4] - Isolation of antihydrogen atoms in 2010 and maintaining them for over 15 minutes in 2011[4] - Discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, confirming the Standard Model of particle physics[1][4] - Discovery of pentaquarks in 2015[3] 2. Technological innovations: - Development of the World Wide Web in 1989 to allow scientists to share information[4][5] - Advancement of particle accelerator and detector technologies that have found applications in fields like medical diagnosis and therapy, computer chip manufacturing, etc.[5] - Development of Grid computing to process the vast amounts of data collected by the LHC experiments[5] 3. Training and inspiration: - CERN provides extensive knowledge and skills to researchers, especially those early in their careers. Researchers who engage with CERN earn 12% more on average throughout their working life.[2] - Runs programs to encourage young people to pursue science, training teachers and allowing students to visit and participate in research[2] 4. Economic and societal benefits: - Every Swiss franc invested in upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider is estimated to generate 1.8 Swiss francs in societal benefits through technology transfer, training, cultural activities, etc.[6] - UK companies supplying CERN have gained improved reputation and significant contracts[2] In summary, CERN has enabled groundbreaking fundamental physics discoveries, driven cutting-edge technological innovations that benefit other fields, provides valuable scientific training and inspiration, and generates economic and societal benefits that exceed the investments made. ​@@ivok9846

[@SatyakiTat]

Thanks for the video Cleo. Amazing work!

[@TheeArtSmith]

Well done Cleo you all got the message across very well. Even the average person should be able to grasp it. Kudos

[@mistersir3185]

That's why her channel is so unique. She can explain anything in a way that anyone could understand in such a captivating way. That ending was beautifully said.

[@RamKrishna-xi6lo]

Internet needs people like you, Cleo. You wonderfully put things together for an average human brain to understand things.

[@CTFlyer7]

I think we have quite enough system bots already.

[@RamKrishna-xi6lo]

@@CTFlyer7 yeah, one bot just replied to my comment.

[@richardgoldenberg814]

Really, dude!!! There are a dozen of other people that are more informative, professional and not annoying as she. They also don't pitch personal products in the middle of the video just like she did 👎👎👎👎. Most of the work and editing here is done by the team, she only reads off prompter. Stop licking 👅👅 👞👞

[@Dave-H]

Cleo, between you, Veritasium and Kurzgesagt, you have inspired me to learn more about everything, and for that I thank you deeply.

[@GlawinsOctaneTune]

It is very refreshing to see someone in your generation so excited about science. I'm a boomer (missed GenX by a few months), but have ALWAYS been fascinated by it myself. I lacked the funding to get the education myself, but frequently find myself trying to learn something new all the time. Please, make more of these videos, you were very engaging and fun to watch / listen to. Thank you.

[@lathikamihiranga]

Cleo is probably one of the best person to have a conversation considering the range of topics she's covered

[@RyanVitt]

Thanks for always making me feel like there's hope for the world. Its tough sometimes, but your videos really showcase the great people who are doing so many great things.

[@lcb5651]

I really love way you explain all this it is so nice, that I want to see more, thank you for doing this, keep it up!

[@meganmclove7693]

thisss is amazing Cleo... thanks for this. love u

[@alecmisra4964]

They built it to confirm the higgs boson. They want a bigger one to confirm super symmetry. The problem is if they do not succeed they just ask for a bigger one.

[@wrathofgrothendieck]

Maybe in a millennia they will understand the laws of quantum gravity.

[@ebd321]

Waste of time and resources

[@stephanweinberger]

@@ebd321 I guess you'd have said exactly the same to Newton or Heisenberg... (both of which contributed to building the very device you were using to write this comment).

[@onyx3019]

one quick note ,elon musk spent double the 22b to buy twitter

[@mitchellmeeuwesen6671]

What is always the obsession with Elon Musk and how he spend HIS money? You know... work weeks, months, years 18 hours a day with all the stress and headache it brings. So once you successfully have changed the world and made billions some person online can be sour about how you spend your fortune.

[@ZaynomR]

@@mitchellmeeuwesen6671be fr…

[@izzytoons]

@@mitchellmeeuwesen6671 Trust me, he did NOT earn ALL that money. Like Trump, he screwed a lot of other people out of their money along the way. Both he and trump stiffed a lot of vendors. I'm not saying he isn't smart and he hasn't worked hard and he doesn't deserve a lot of money, but many people do that and don't take as much. Go back and look at how he interacted with his counterparts at each of the companies he been involved in while he grew his wealth. Look at how he treats his investors, de-valuing his companies by engaging in ourageous, politically charged social behavior. Look at how he treats his employees. Look at how he treats Americans, when he compares them to Chinese. Look at how he treats the government, which has provided significant funding to p-retty much every single one of his companies, whether it is contracts, tax breaks, tax breaks to incentivize his customers, etc. The guy asked how much it would cost to solve world hunger. The answer $44 billion. He turned right around and bought Twitter for $42B instead. He decided he'd rather have the world's biggest megaphone. Stop worshipping.

[@kiimiLol]

@@mitchellmeeuwesen6671I think his point was that the same amount of money was used to buy just an app which you can argue doesn’t do much to make humanity better, therefore, spending 22billion on this wouldn’t be as extreme as they’re making it seem. It’s not about Elon Musk, is the fact that it is not unfeasible to consider spending that amount on something that could advance us as a species when it gets invested in trivial things as twitter. Clearly this amount of money is being casually spent all around the world by those who have the means to. Governments would be better off funding this than wars or other bs that they do.

[@dipayanbarman5139]

​@@izzytoons and it's the common people's attention that made him so rich , his company is overvalued and I just want to witness if his bubble bursts, I am eager to know whether facts will get a defeat from lies or vice-versa.

[@DanKeeleyMusic]

Thank you for doing this video. I've often tried to understand the Large Hadron Collider, but it's always overexplained. You did a great job and now I feel pretty I finally understand what a massive feat this machine is.

[@HarmenHoek]

The amount of data the ATLAS detector collects is crazy: about 60TB of data PER SECOND.

[@Narada-nu3nx]

But it only stores a small fraction of that. Even CERN cannot cope with 60 TB/s per detector. There are complex trigger systems that filter out the best events in real time.

[@jonathancohen2506]

Cleo- you’re a scientist and a poet. You and the content you create makes the internet a better, smarter, and more hopeful place. Thank you!

[@SuperMTight]

You made a bunch of great videos on this channel, but this one is your best yet. It's so much complex content, looking back and forward, all condensed into a comprehensible and captivating video, with a beautiful, positive, and motivating note at the end. Fantastic, Cleo and team! With all these horrible, destructive things happening in the world right now, with humanity showing its dark side all the time, this is really uplifting. Thanks for your hard and awesome work!

[@hamdosh3652]

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST KZbinRS I’VE EVER SEEEEEEEEEN!! Great content, Great story telling, Great shooting, Great editing.. everything about it is amazing. Many thanks to the team delivering this content. Wishing you all the best ❤️

[@nandayoichineee8820]

I already was 2 times in an particle collider called DESY in Hamburg Germany and i was stunned what tech is inside there. But still to this moment i didnt fully understood why. Thank you for your almost perfect explanation, im stunned

[@dadunce7273]

You make me love science the way my teachers can’t. Thank you

[@scrumptious9673]

❤

[@neelanshguptaa310]

I so love the enthusiasm and giddy excitement with which she makes her videos. It's so nice to see someone really enjoy their work the way she does.

[@crawn14]

This video fills me with determination! Thanks Cleo! We can achieve a better future together!

[@ScorpioDRush621]

Your ending talking about wanting to be viewed as a civilization seeking knowledge brought me to tears. Bravo. If only everyone could think the same way your beautiful brain does.

[@MartinCharles]

Cleo, I love that you're actually excited about the things you cover.

[@taknothing4896]

This is science journalism done right. You've got my appreciation.

[@cheetah100]

Only it isn't. Good production values, but acting as a PR agent for the new collider rather than being objective.

[@GH0ST369]

Unlike COVID, set us back to trust science...

[@paulsengupta971]

@@GH0ST369 Only for the ignorant.

[@fanman421]

Love your down to earth explanations. Thank you so much for your work.

[@wake.up.and.be.awesome]

This explanation was really helpful. Fascinating subject!

[@dmor3359]

One of my favorite KZbin videos of yours. Great job! Oh, and I still love your voice and enthusiasm. :)

[@Mermaidkilla]

Well said

[@rblew131]

You're positively killing it, Cleo. Keep up this incredible work!

[@javiermifsud4001]

Imagine if we 10x the budget for this kind of amazing science. The things we could do ❤

[@antoinettejoubert]

Had the privilege to accompany students to Cern and it was one of the highlights ofmy life!! I am still gobsmacked! 🇿🇦

[@nicolasrobertgunn]

This is a ridiculously good video, and I don't say that often. Great work, Cleo and team!

[@f.herumusu8341]

The problem is that the LHC showed no "new physics". It proved the existance of the Higgs boson, but that was a must and a promise by particle physicists who built the LHC. But beyond that nothing new was found, we still have the same open questions as before. We badly need a hint where exactly to search for "new physics". That is why also physicists ask if simply building a bigger machine with higher energies to clueless look around is a good idea.

[@user-sw9pd2xj5v]

Yes, isn't that just science? Did it matter that bees don't come from flowers? Of course it does.

[@anonymes2884]

Indeed. Many physicists expected the LHC to find super-symmetric particles and it hasn't. So the main use of a bigger collider would be looking for super-symmetric particles more massive than the LHC is able to investigate and a perfectly valid question to ask is, "OK, but if _that_ doesn't find them either, _then_ what ? Just build an _even bigger_ accelerator ??". The difficulty is, at what point do we basically accept that super-symmetry isn't right and a bigger accelerator isn't going to help ? Plenty are saying we're already there. So we need a new direction to look in and right now, none are particularly forthcoming.

[@f.herumusu8341]

@@anonymes2884 Right. Some of the SUSY guys were quite inept, stating that they would be nearly sure that the LHC will find the lightest SUSY partner ... That damaged also the string guys, because any string theory must be necessary supersymmetric. In that light other physicist begin to lose thier patience with hypothesis wich could not make any experimental tested prediction ... since nearly 100 years (if we count the predecessors of string theory). Not a good time to be a high energy physisicst. It's badly stuck.

[@devanshnaman4874]

the kind of passion and energy you have in your words makes us wanna try

[@aryasantra0006]

Hi Ma'am I'm Arya and I want u to know that, u r a true visionary who creates visionaries! The way u narrate the way u create the videos, they just hit different from others . They are heart touching! I mean, whenever I open utube and watch your videos it truly makes my day, keeping me cheered up as giving me the feeling to be a part of this certain civilization of a certain species of a certain planet in a certain solar system! It sends shivers down my spine when talk about the boundaries we can hit, the things we can achieve! 🤩 Even though I'm a random kid with non scientific academics intersted in arts and creative works I just always feel attached to science, not just science more like knowledge on how everything works and the vastness of this existence and everything! I mean I don't understand that much of the calculations even though I try hard and maybe that's why sometimes I feel ashamed😔to say my opinions out loud because I'm not a person from scientific or technical background but watching you rises the enthusiasm inside me ! 🙂🙂 I don't know why I wrote this big of a comment but I just truly wanted u to know that, again u made my day ! Lots of lots of loves from india ! 🤗

[@ivy5935]

Thank you Cleo for all your amazing and informative videos! They are not just interesting but also „fun“ to watch. Thank you!

[@radicant7283]

And yet we've got people who still think Earth is flat lmao.

[@CN3891]

And people still disagree with Michelson-Morley. Don’t conflate legitimate disagreement with stupidity. And don’t set up straw men.

[@meikelwupp7044]

@@CN3891?

[@ryugo7713]

@@CN3891 it’s adorable how you cling to the notion that dissenting views are just as valid as established scientific principles. Your intellectual gymnastics truly inspire awe. Keep fighting the good fight against those pesky straw men!

[@asherstribe5695]

@@CN3891the earth is flat is NOT a legitimate disagreement. It’s the symptom of a crumbling society that won’t acknowledge facts. Such as men can become women or you must take a rushed vaccine to stop the spread of Covid.

[@newtonbelieved]

And we've got thousands of scientists who can't even grasp astrology, LMAO. I use it every single day to check out amazing things in the world, the bigger joke is on you.

[@paulgarritty8978]

What a fantastic video and description…. Really well done 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 😊

[@kevman2296]

Such an amazing video! Thanks for the insights on this topic. As a contrast to all the bad news you see on television all day it is refreshing to see that there is hope for our species

[@nishantpatil1247]

Steins gate anyone?

[@Katiethekitten]

What even is that?

[@ashenabeysinghe4767]

​It's an anime show.

[@rDaragaming]

Embarrassed to say Stein's; gate was my very first thought 😅.. I do love the science behind the collider though, it's very interesting stuff and this video was very engaging

[@DodgerX]

Yesssss

[@the.spriggan]

Behind the facade of searching for new particles and learning more about the ones we already know of, CERN, or should I say SERN is an evil organisation conspiring to take over the world by building a time machine.

[@MrAlecPinnock]

I'm glad people like you are making videos like this!! The universe is insane

[@alinam4712]

This video is really AMAZINGGG, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS CONTENT

[@craigwallace639]

what a great video, MASSive thanks Cleo.

[@doctortrouserpants1387]

This is the first time in my life that I got a real sense of the size of a proton, so thank you for that!

[@DamiantenBohmer]

Seriously, you have just described how they squeeze and smash the protons together better than anybody I have heard, watched or listened to; just showing the scale of the Atlas sensor and then the hair and then how they relate to the Earth and down was awesome. Thank you for all your videos; your enthusiasm for science is tremendous. 😃

[@user-xj5xp6qz5g]

simping too hard

[@qwerty1994ize]

@@user-xj5xp6qz5gget a life incel

[@maki6450]

What a great video, we’re not just a world of conflict, we are people with curiosity and passion, and yet we have so much more to find out about the greatness of the universe we live in, we are so small but so incredible.

[@washy3]

Literally the only KZbinr I can watch a whole 10 thousand hour video and still wouldn't get bored keep it up

[@getmorphed]

I have learned more about CERN from this video than any other. Great graphics and pacing. Thanks Cleo.

[@WajidRiyaz]

Loved the ending! The way you said it & the perspective behind it was motivational and hopeful for us all. Thank you for such awesome content 👏

[@michelcombes9965]

Having visited the LHC a few years ago, I still feel the same goosebumps and tears of love and compassion for humanity every time I recall the collision chamber. @Cleo, your video triggered these emotions within me. When humans stand on the brink of witnessing the creation of the universe through collisions, we are faced with a profound symbolism. These collisions can either manifest the presence of a divine force or potentially destroy everything : The complex interplay between creation and destruction, the view of these "god detectors" being at a place where new matter is made is incredibly powerful that all my cells are immersed with an immense love for humanity. We have only one chance to get things right; let's approach it with consciousness.

[@prajjwaldangal2022]

great content and storytelling. I once worked at a linear accelerator where scientists sent electron bunches and noticed there were a variety of experiments being done on a time-to-time basis, so imagine something similar at CERN as well

[@KingdomCitizen7]

So they have billions of dollars to find a bump on a spreadsheet... but not enough to create reliable safe and efficient public transportation...

[@anthonyfaccaro7118]

How about the suppression of free energy?

[@rudolfsykora3505]

What do you think about magnetic resonance or Internet?

[@ccg2301]

That bump could give answers on every problems we seek to solve and that includes your concern about efficient transportation.

[@essaly7969]

Public transportation is really good in Switzerland.

[@paulsengupta971]

"not enough to create reliable safe and efficient public transportation" - hmm? That exists.

[@acekunz422]

these videos are always so well done. it’s amazing. gotta love cleo

[@Smi7h1sH3r3]

thanks for helping me understand what the heck the hadron collider was all about! super fascinating.

[@stephensegal5187]

Something to consider about CERN is that the magnets used to operate it could have been used to virtually SOLVE Our energy needs for the entire planet. In my opinion, it is a far better use of a known finite resource to solve that issue FIRST, and then maybe a very large toy with uncertain outcomes that USES an immense amount of energy to operate can be considered.

[@anonymes2884]

No, that's incorrect. In fact the LHC's magnets _use_ a substantial amount of energy to keep them cool enough to be superconductors. And though marvels of engineering, they're _ultimately_ "just" more powerful versions of the supercooled magnets inside any MRI machine - there's nothing magical about them in other words, they don't make energy. (maybe you're conflating them with the idea of powerful magnets being an essential element in most fusion reactor designs ? Because it's true that IF we crack fusion _then_ we'll be well positioned to solve the world's energy needs)

[@PaulSzkibik]

You think that the magnets at cern would somehow be able to solve the entire worlds energy needs? 😅 Did a bot write this?

[@Shooo117]

Source - trust me bro

[@ministartist.fousta1093]

Best episode you produced imo. Thank you so much for putting this together 💗💯

[@drwex]

I love your attitude. Passion and wonder. I knew all the facts in this video and still would watch it again just to bathe in that infectious enthusiasm.

[@manveroo1340]

I was able to see the ALICE detector as a student and the whole experience was incredible! You could feel that this is a place where the world comes together in peace to do insanely awesome stuff. I'll never forget that feeling ❤

[@muditagarwal8642]

The conclusion touched a nerve. It was very beautifully written and elicits empowering affirmations.

[@Lee-tt2yb]

@muditagarwal8642 Worrying about what hypothetical aliens think? Like, keeping up with the galactic Joneses?

[@miinyoo]

Also terrifying hubris. It goes both ways.