Harry Cliff: How to Make an Apple Pie ​(#212)

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here  Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of
Cambridge working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector
buried 100 metres underground at CERN near Geneva. He is a member
of an international team of around 1400 physicists, engineers and
computer scientists who are using LHCb to study the basic building
blocks of our universe, in search of answers to some of the biggest
questions in modern physics. He also spends a big chunk of his time
sharing his love of physics with the public. His first popular
science book, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch, which will be
published in August 2021. From 2012 to 2018 he held a joint post
between Cambridge and the Science Museum in London, where he
curated two major exhibitions: Collider (2013) and The Sun (2018).
He has given a large number of public talks, including at TED and
the Royal Institution, and made numerous appearances on television,
radio and podcasts. Visit our
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to jordanharbinger.com/subscribe 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:00
Origin of the book cover and title 00:07:56 What was your thought
process in writing this book? Was it a science career risk?
00:12:04 Is there too much hype in science? Is LHC worth it?
00:18:15 What is an "historic" experiment and why do you refer to
them in the book? 00:23:31 When can you trust a theorist? 00:26:25
What's new about the "new" physics? 00:30:16 How far away are the
next breakthroughs in physics? 00:30:43 Justifying big physics: Was
finding the Higgs boson worth it? 00:34:34 The next big physics
machine - and the one that wasn't (The Superconducting
Supercollider) 00:38:32 The latest results from LHCb collaboration.
00:47:15 Is this really "new" physics or simply modifications to
the standard model and its forces? Anomolies? 00:53:28 What is the
elementary particle missing gap to the Standard Model? 00:55:59 On
the miraculous "fine-tuning" of the Universe, and thoughts on the
multiverse. 01:00:24 What is Harry's day job? (LHCb) 01:07:57 Can
we get to a grand unified theory with existing data? 01:14:45 Can
you foresee getting more out the existing data with new
computational methods? 01:19:15 What would you put in your ethical
will? 01:24:00 What would you put on your billion-year time capsule
for the future? 01"26:17 What has occurred in your life that you
thought was impossible? What advice would you give your younger
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