Smashing Physics - with Jon Butterworth and Brian Cox

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

NEW VIDEO! Jon Butterworth gives an insider's account of life at the Large Hadron Collider, and his take on the search for the Higgs particle, and is joined by Professor Brian Cox for a Q&A.

[@AdamRBusby]

+The Royal Institution thanks RI, thoroughly enjoyed this

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Very nicely done. The questions are my favorite part :)

[@colingreig1633]

The Royal Institution Lecture

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

I`m a taxi - driver and a few years ago I took a fella from a small town in North Lincolnshire over to The University of Hull. I aksed him if he`d care to tell me what his business was there, and he told me that he was starting a degree in Physics. He was in his mid to late 20`s - so a more mature student. I asked him how he`d done in A ( Advanced ) Level Physics. I was rather surprised to learn that he`d never studied A Level Physics. I therefore asked him how well he had done in A Level Maths, and he said to me that he`d never studied A Level Maths. I wished him luck. A few months later I picked up the same chap from the same town and took him to the same University. I asked him how the Physics degree was coming along. He replied that he was strtuggling with it - particularly the maths. That lad has my undying respect in giving it a go, and I`d love to hear that he has been successful in his studies.

[@geirvidar5266]

Vísiédcollator1064.like to be back Geir Vilhjálmsson

[@musicfan238able]

Great lecture and impressive questions from younger audience members.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

This is amazing: I'm 14 and on my mum's account; at school I'm studying the Big Bang theory and the Hadron Collider. You're all wonderful: it's exciting. People below should stop complaining about the breathing -one thing to say and it *should* be how the H-Boson field is such a great discovery and how this is an interesting lecture. I started physics a month ago so I'm just discovering the awesomeness of science :) Learning how Higgs-Boson works and its relationship to the Big Bang and to symmetry/ and bi-poles is amazing science. Thank you.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Whoa! That young lad at 1:08:00 Was incredible. He'd be 11 at the most?I feel kinda dumb now! I love how he answers kids the exact same way as adults. As if these kids are post-docs. Wow! I love this dude.

[@kurtbjorn]

Pursue science. It will give you a lifetime of joy and wonder. I'm 55. I love lectures in Quantum Mechanics, chemistry (my degree) and physics. My wife rolls her eyes. Oh well, too bad, my brain is energized. Keep it up!

[@nadmey9099]

Good work. Amazing to hear young people love science. Well done and all the best in studying

[@markusjacobi-piepenbrink9795]

"An elementary particle is one we haven't broken yet!" - I absolutely love this line!

[@SuperGGLOL]

Markus Jacobi-Piepenbrink why ?

[@frankrubino3302]

E=T²? If a Particle could go into a separate universe could you catch that particle in a vacuum Of space? If there's mathematics going on in the vacuum of space Then wouldn't that mean Time equals energy? Thank you for listening

[@KieranGarland]

+The Royal Institution videos are consistently the very best on the entire web. Cheers, folks x

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

Aw, thanks!

[@AdamRBusby]

love that children up to speed and asking questions :) :)

[@glutinousmaximus]

I think that Jon has so much to say and to communicate, that he tends to gabble at a gallop. It's clear that he loves his subject and has a certain passion for it. Many other famous physicists were brilliant and passionate as well; but made terrible lecturers. He seemed a little nervous, which didn't help. Even so, a good lecture and much appreciated!

[@CookingWithCows]

Fun! I actually live just a few bus stop away from the DESY collider in Hamburg :) they offer free tours every first saturday of the month

[@Thorum13]

Fascinating talk. Thanks!!

[@JoeyBullet222]

im so lucky to stumble upon this vid...its better than just watching brian in an interview..🍺

[@davidwilkie9551]

If a gravity field is analogous to the electric, then finding a particle is equivalent to the probability of illuminating the lattice of electron holes in a semiconductor, the opposite use of the principle used in the wave tank demo. Because the shaped spacetime that results in Black Holes and expanded lattice of intergalactic distances is fluid and strongly correlated with the dark energy and matter, leaving the observable phenomena as an outline of the balance in superposition (at "omnidirectional" apogee, or brane/plane) between accelerations to the vanishing point.

[@kieronproctor9752]

Particle physics gives me a hadron

[@drakekay6577]

aw man, poor Brian Cox had to sit on a stair case for that entire Lecture!!! :(

[@alexiewallace]

he looked very content

[@kylben]

The presentation was a bit scattered and chaotic, but made a few things clearer to me than they were before. The reviews of the book confirmed that it had both qualities as well, so I ordered it before the video was even over.

[@guitarlessonsformortalssan8619]

What about that one kids question!? I can't wait to hear his lecture one day.

[@ksimvanderhlaar]

This kid's question was really interesting, when I've heard it I was like: "Awww. Go on! Ask it, ask more, you are brilliant!"

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

I heard about two or three youngsters asking questions and all were pretty good questions... I nearly wept: whilst ever there's kids like those being inclined to ask that sort of question, science is going to survive well - even if the government is hell-bent on choking the living shit out of it by not funding it properly. It's for those kids, too, that we should stop government after government dumbing down school science curricula and making something so essential seem so fucking banal. But yeh - I'm with Erik, looking forward to hearing all these kids' lectures one day!

[@acetate909]

He's a researcher and not a public speaker so that fact that I can hear him for 90 minutes is enough to keep the breathing from bothering me. Tho I do wonder how his breathing is now that people are freaking out over the obstensively reached limits of the LHC.

[@paulholzherr2993]

A lapel mic might have worked better.

[@Bob-yl9pm]

The Feynman diagram works, a high-energy gamma-ray may have no mass, but is equal to it E=MC*2

[@dacutler]

You've seen the bump that shows the existence of a particle as forecast by Higgs. Could there be a harmonic of that bump? That is, if you have discovered a 125 GeV bump, could there be one at 250 or 500, and that the Higgs Boson already discovered isn't really the actual particle but a harmonic of the real thing?

[@nickacelvn]

That is a question worthy of further investigation.

[@deltalima6703]

Great presentation.

[@johnbremner4154]

Is there any reason that it is necessary to drive particles in opposite directions before smashing them together? After all, when one side is going at 99.99*n of C, the combined speed according to Einstein’s Special Relativity won’t be any faster than if you just take one racing particle and smash it into a trapped static particle. This could save about half the cost of a future collider.

[@artyzulawski6091]

But it would cost tax payers twice as much to maintain a trapped particle for the collusion. Conversely, I suppose that added cost could have been offset by halving the expense of the 27 kilometer tube. 😉

[@johnbremner4154]

@@artyzulawski6091 But they are not maintained. There are only snapshots of the collisions...

[@lastchance8142]

Actually, the combined speed IS faster. The relative speed absolutely does increase, while never reaching C of course. The combined energy is significantly greater with both particles moving they add their momentum.

[@SpotterVideo]

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons. Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.

[@arrum5553]

Well done Bryan Cox you are great

[@jietzemiedema8002]

I just have 1 question. Does the number of atoms in the Universe ,stay the same as a billion years ago ? Or can it grow.

[@meadandmilk]

It doesn't necessarily grow, but it is not the same either. The earliest atoms were simple low density atoms like Hydrogen and Helium, however new atoms can be made from existing ones from collapsing stars for example. It may be easier to see it as the total amount of mass remaining the same since the birth of the universe, as oppose to the total amount of atoms.

[@Sifar_Secure]

I think it's more accurate to say that everything is in flux. Atom numbers change due to fusion and fission creating new particles, and electrons are destroyed when they unite with positrons, resulting in photons. It's more helpful to consider that the total energy of the universe remains the same, while that energy can manifest in different forms of matter at different times.

[@muhammadalkhawarizmi3630]

27:14 To look inside Quark/Gluon.

[@meadandmilk]

Amazing to see the children asking better questions than the adults.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Pretty natural, shurely? The kids really want to know, aren't striving for effect, and are sometimes exposing a hole in either the speaker's facts or their planning of the speech.

[@meadandmilk]

@@TheDavidlloydjones exactly. Like I said it's good to see. Most children I know are given ipads and sausage rolls and are told go be quiet.

[@Elmonati]

54:20 did he just say we are made of anti matter and not matter? i feel like this is a key point that has not been delved into by too many people

[@GregStewartecosmology]

yup... I couldnt believe it too, it's hard to understand why he said that....weird...it's like a priest who mistakes heaven for hell during a sunday service and doesnt correct himself.

[@amirzandbasiri]

Great talk, thank you.

[@nothingbutthebest513]

So is he saying that time is a commodity? And in the transition and that the smashing of these particles prove this because of the lack of mass in the proton. And that time is contained in the Z particle.

[@Raffali666]

Whats the book he recommends to the read? lazy to listen through the lecture again.

[@twig3288]

It may be as big as the Circle Line, but is it as useful?

[@AdamRBusby]

so the experiments have caught up with the theories now? will that that make future research "aimless" and just a matter of "more power" and see what happens?

[@xthemachox]

Good video but geeze that freaking nose whistle annoyed the antimatter out of me

[@NotPoodle]

Thanks, i was 20:00 in before reading this comment and noticing it. Now it's all i can hear!

[@laserfloyd]

Yeah a lav mic on the neck would have helped that out. Good talk but a little hard to ignore the proximity to the nose area. lol

[@thomaspoole2055]

I am the sound engineer for the venue; I have been engineering for nearly 20 years. There is no nasal sound in the auditorium all feeds are sent to the cameras Post fade, Pre EQ. This gives the film crew the cleanest sound for them to edit as they wish. I EQ for the live audience not the recording.

[@howdafkshdino8902]

great sense of humor

[@howdafkshdino8902]

Hey, Satan needs a voice in this conversation too ya know.

[@vacuity1664]

you could use E=pc^2, p being the momentum of the particle.

[@bencopsonman]

not when p=mv but at speeds the fraction of the speed of light one must employ the Lorentz transformation.

[@MrGerdbrecht]

Last time i checked, it was still E=mc^2 with the assumption that your p is not my m.

[@edlynnnau536]

No CC for hearing impaired! We are always left out.

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

We're sorry this video does not have closed captions. We are making every effort to get as many of our videos subtitled as possible, but as a team of two with very limited resources, we're currently only able to commit to making sure all of our short films have subtitles, while trying to also get as many longer talks transcribed, as possible.

[@PerFnurt]

Amazing under use of Brian Cox' presence.

[@gorrthebutcher4696]

he already did his lecture on the same day mate

[@drakekay6577]

1:00:38 Gravity has a porous nature, fundamental particles are only affected by scales relative to themselves. Which is why static electricity attracts dust, scale to scale ratio is 1:1.

[@lastchance8142]

Butterworth is brilliant and presents some great insights and analogies. I particularly loved his description for spontaneous symmetry breaking. On the hand, he is not the most coherent speaker.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

And now we know how long the Circle Line is! Now then, what and where is this Circle Line thing?

[@DaytakTV]

I love them both.

[@StephenBlower]

How does the Higgs boson give mass when the Higgs boson only exists for fractions of a second? Or is that because the mass the Higgs boson is responsible for is a field, and as such doesn't exist in nature as a particle?

[@ReallyMaxPayload]

I had to go and find the Al Jezera interview that Mr Butterworth referenced with Professor Fruitcake. If you haven't see it, it's well worth the 25 mins, if you want a laugh :)

[@UKtilly]

Brian Cox should debate with Eric Dubay.

[@pieterotten9499]

Get on with it!

[@higfny]

Very interesting and very good that you put this up :) But; Butterworth seems to be making quite high breathing noises. I think you should try to filter those out next time, or perhaps give him a different sort of mic. Still, a wonderful video and very interesting- thanks :)

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

very interesting, could someone help me on clearing up on a issue he discussed? He mentioned that when two protons collide it creates the higgs field, so does this mean were surrounded by a field, and when two protons collide its temporary causing measurable mass in the time its there before disappearing? If I am wrong please correct me, thank you.

[@GlassDeviant]

I wonder if this guy was trying to sell his book at this lecture. *smirk*

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Just listening

[@Heeknot]

I really want to buy the book but my financial situation isn't well. Why must college be so expensive?

[@VICARI0S]

Get a fucking job or a student loan.

[@Heeknot]

Nathan Yeung ive sent out around 50 job apps this summer, and i already have scholarships and pell grants. What else do you want from me?

[@angelsndemons3402]

Take a deep breath and relax, find a safe space to cry, blame it all on Trump. If that doesn't help just burn an American flag then burn down your school. Problem solved!!

[@terrywbreedlove]

Sometimes you can trade books

[@sonjak8265]

Study in Europe: Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain.... Education is either free or very cheap there...

[@ponps1426]

I've seen all physicists speaking here used Macbook. Is there any reason???

[@LGH666]

Higgs field gives matter mass, does dark matter also gain mass from the Higgs field?

[@mitmutt]

i like your openness about this ...... could you not farm the information out to the general public given the right software and let us wade through it .... it may help ... maybe

[@humnpwr]

I love watching these presentations but Jon should maybe slow down a little.

[@togstn666]

it should be called "Whinning Physics"

[@GregStewartecosmology]

54:20 Wow i'm sure he just made a error @ 54:20 as we are all human and make basic errors at times. But, if Mr Butterworth actually thought we are made from anti-matter at the time. then just wow...he needs to actually read the first chapter again of their physics bible script or needed to attend more rehearsals of this movie 'Smashing Physics'. PS. Please do no't diss Otto E Rossler....he's a good man! Kind Regards. Greg Stewart

[@d3nv1]

"...Yeah - but Brian, when are D:Ream making a new album ?"

[@rustic35]

24 minutes in and really haven't got anywhere yet. I'll persist but, hopefully he starts giving some useful words soon.

[@darshanshah378]

If you watch from 4:05 on at half speed he sounds super high

[@hexagon9895]

Bored with Qbit, i've moved onto quarks

[@marvinchester]

Point the camera on what's spoken about. Not at speaker talking.

[@venkatbabu186]

Jupiter Saturn and Uranus are fusion power house and sun fission power house.

[@Ni999]

Nonsense.

[@U5K0]

Cool! I made that map! 12:28

[@cench]

Jon Butterworth @ 1.5x speed = the next Doctor.

[@prasadbhokare9228]

Don't smash physics. If physics decides to smash you back, it will get difficult

[@peteharland8328]

So the molten iron core of the earth is not magnetic then....

[@deltalima6703]

Its not molten either. You must be old.

[@cragnog]

But Ireland IS a member of the EU?

[@siwilson1437]

That kid in the audience is going to create Skynet

[@danteaurelius]

Congrats.... "Buy the book", the only thing I remember. Was ist one big Advertisement through Royal Institute? Okay, there is a thing called fundraising and I hope there is a big funding for science connected to this video, but in my books it is a bit too much.

[@karateoone]

I came here today for the maths masterclasses

[@sumotherdude]

ok, maybe i'll buy the book.

[@victorblaer]

Slightly unfortunate the breathing sound coming from his microphone, very distracting,.

[@sankhadipsen2650]

do photons in light time travel coz they travel at the speed of light????

[@glutinousmaximus]

A child's question perhaps - but if the Higgs Boson is a reality; then does this posit an anti-Higgs particle/field?

[@MarkTillotson]

Fields are fields, chargeless bosons are usually their own antiparticles, from what I glean.

[@cathevans9859]

Fascinating lecture, however, Butterworth sounded like 'Wheezy' from Toy Story!

[@davidwilson6577]

"No magnetic field there, whatsoever". Magnetic early universe confirmed.

[@istvansipos9940]

is he right? well, who NOSE?

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Hi

[@curtisblake261]

Cox is one of the "publish or perish" popular physicists who has mostly been unhelpful except to his own popularity.

[@grf1426]

0850 "same length as the circle line" What if I don't live in wherever this circle line of yours is? I's call you parochial but that isn't the right word

[@mehashi]

The other guys breathing while Brian is doing the introductions is creepy as hell...

[@AitoNitram]

Jon means Ion in Swedish. Just an fyi.

[@warpeace8891]

Yes Jon there is more fans of science than you probably think. The key to unlocking your audience is not less complicated than the cutting edges of science itself. Sadly your method of saying a large number of words to give a small amount of information while interspersed with personal references, crass sales plugs, obscure opinionated tangents and frayed tangential storytelling is really not going broaden that audience. I can't imagine more than family, close friends, colleagues and a small amount of like minded people being able to follow and stay engaged with you. Conserve your energy.... the universe does not, 31;52 that's where you lost me. Carl Sagan is an example of an outstanding communicator. Succinct and interesting information presented with thoughtful precision to a broad audience without dumbing it down too much.

[@jjonez95]

Apparently we're all made of anti-matter and not matter. lol. 54:20

[@glutinousmaximus]

In most cases, It doesn't matter if we are matter or anti-matter; just that the rest of the universe is of the same orientation (eg. the electron is negatively charged and the proton positive) Anti-matter merely has the opposite charge. But I say 'In most cases' since research has shown that oppositely charged matter is certainly much rarer - If equal amounts of matter and anti-matter existed in the 'Big Bang', then the NET result would have been NO matter at all! Interesting no?

[@darwinlaluna3677]

I am so sleepy

[@godspyro8405]

Soo much oof on the buy my book b.s.

[@winstonchurchill8300]

The keyboard player is still allowed in the Royal Institution? What has this world only come to.

[@rwasta7007]

god damn it brian, im such a fan of yours, and there you are with a fucking apple computer. too bad time travel to the past is impossible or i would do it just to forget this.

[@davkrod]

11 minutes in and all he has told us is how good he thinks he is.

[@caltha2720]

You didn't have to pay anything, you can skip, and being that not everyone is going to know who he is, some introduction doesn't hurt. Such a petty whinge.

[@MajorJimPlays]

dat nose noise tho.

[@joeturner799]

JandHfilms Yeah! At first while Brian was talking,I thought it was the camera operator ,also having the camera's mic on. But it was Jon's- waiting breathing , Those mic's need a compressor to take off the natural compression or built in compression that seems to be dialed in to -nose hair whiles !

[@BarryObama666]

You are opening doorways to places, dimensions and beings of which we know nothing about. You are attracting attention the way the atomic bomb did to beings which we know nothing about. The kind of beings that Stephen Hawking warned us about. The could be malevolent and it is well know fact that reality is far more stranger, bizzare and terrifying than anything a science fiction or horror writers might conjure up.

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[@JustOneAsbesto]

Sweet nose breathings, bro.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

nose whistle, I would of had to move his mic a touch so his nasal breathing wasnt so prominent.

[@builderbuilder616]

Not a very good talk IMO.

[@howdafkshdino8902]

Here is another example of an educated man letting his ego begin to run things.Twice now in the first 50 min.he states "Me and ..." WTF ever happened to "....and I.?"Peace out

[@ashscott6068]

howdafk shdino That was never a rule in English. And, even if it had been, usage MAKES language "correct". Otherwise, we'd all be talking however the first person whoever spoke talked.

[@acadianshepherd9226]

What a waste of money... How do people involved with this live with themselves.... Way to much money is being spent on something so unimportant in the grand scheme of things... All these so called scientists should be ashamed of themselves when there are starving in this world...

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