#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge
working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that
specializes in searching for hints of new particles and forces by
studying a type of particle called the "beauty quark", or "b
quark". In this way, he is part of the group of physicists who are
searching answers to some of the biggest questions in modern
physics. He is also an exceptional communicator of science with
some of the clearest and most captivating explanations of basic
concepts in particle physics I've ever heard. Support this podcast
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Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w EPISODE LINKS: Harry's Website:
https://www.harrycliff.co.uk/ Harry's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/harryvcliff Beyond the Higgs Lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edvdzh9Pggg Harry's stand-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnediKM_Sts This conversation is
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support it on Patreon. Here's the outline of the episode. On some
podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump
to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 03:51 - LHC and
particle physics 13:55 - History of particle physics 38:59 - Higgs
particle 57:55 - Unknowns yet to be discovered 59:48 - Beauty
quarks 1:07:38 - Matter and antimatter 1:10:22 - Human side of the
Large Hadron Collider 1:17:27 - Future of large particle colliders
1:24:09 - Data science with particle physics 1:27:17 - Science
communication 1:33:36 - Most beautiful idea in physics