Tag: Videos
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GREAT CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE / II CIEMAT Science Week Conference
Within the II Jornadas Científicas organised by CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) on the occasion of Science Week 2020, lectures on the fundamental structure of matter, on dark matter and on the Cosmos, bringing together research from the very small to the very large
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A Question of Survival: Why We Hunted the Higgs (TEDxTUM)
This presentation was given at TEDxTUM 2015 in front of a large public audience and was recorded and published on the TEDxTUM site, as well as on their YouTube channel. It attempts to answer the question of why we do basic research by describing it as a necessary facet of human survival.
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Journey to Discover the Nature of Mass (The Higgs Field)
To explain the basics on the Higgs Field Produced by: Mannmade Productions Director: Chris Mann 05:00 min. / 10 September 2008 / CERN Copyright
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Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and his wife, Ray. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten. The film begins with an aerial image of a man reclining on a blanket; the view is that of one meter across. The…
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CMS Detector Assembly (17 minutes)
This 17-minute long animation shows the construction of the main structural components of CMS in the surface hall in Cessy and offers a detailed overview of the installation in the experimental cavern. Produced by: CERN Multimedia Production Unit Director: Silvano de Gennaro 17:00 min. / 01 June 2003
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Journey to the Unimaginably Strange
This video concentrates on the LHC and the strangeness of our universe it is designed to study. Subjects include What happens within the LHC Theory of relativity How “Sat Nav” or Global Positioning Systems (GPS) work for cars and the possibility of errors in their measurement Extra dimentions Higgs field Mass Mini black holes mini…
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PhD TV The Higgs Boson Explained
A short and clever video animation using cartoons and voice over. This can also be printed out as a comic book. The PhD Comics team visit particle physicist David Whiteson at CERN where he talks to us about what the mysterious Higgs Boson is and how the Large Hadron Collider is going to find it…
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Hadronic Calorimeter in the ATLAS detector on the LHC at CERN
This colorful 3D animation is an excerpt from the film “ATLAS-Episode II, The Particles Strike Back.” Shot with a bug’s eye view of the inside of the detector. Topics covered include what the Hadronic Calorimeter measures, what types of particles are hadrons, what the calorimeter is made of, what happens when a particle passes through…
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A Day with Particles
A short film about one day in the life of a particle physicist.
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« The Higgs Discovery Explained »
First video in a series of three. How exactly do particle physicists observe and discover particles? This mini-series provides a simple explanation of the process, based of the discovery of the Higgs boson, starting from the role of particle accelerators.