How Do They Make Particles Hit Each Other?
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- On the border between France and Switzerland is the biggest science experiment ever built. It’s a tunnel, over 100 meters underground and 27 kilometers long. Inside that tunnel, scientists put a long blue tube… and inside that tube, they put two pipes that they keep colder and emptier than outer space… and down those pipes, they fire particles smaller than atoms…
in opposite directions, pushing them faster and faster until, when they’re almost the speed of light, they finally smash together!
But my question was… how do they get them to actually hit each other?? Here's the answer.
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#science #tech #stem #animation #cern #physics
I love how we as humans just resort to banging things together really fast to discover more things
Unga bunga! Ooga booga!
Baby
I mean if it works 🤷♀️
i meannnnn that how we made fire😂
Hey it worked to make fire we are going to keep doing it
Just don't stand under a window working near chemicals during a rainstorm during this
Ayo flash reference
You mean in front of a window?
@@J1gguunder a window, it's a reference to The Flash TV show
Nah i think i will i want powers man
HOLD ON A SEC-
*starts playing pokerface by Lady Gaga*
last time someone did that, we got the flash
Different timeline buddy,thawne took away barrys power in this one so now he became an actor
The place is called CERN for those who want to dig a little more
If you dig too much you might be a little freaked out.
It's like totally freaking cool like omg! 60!! Like out of 60 billion I was like wooah omg! I'm totally wet for cern rn!!
They also invented time travel and used it to start WW3 in Japan for some reason
Bizarrely enough, Kern (with a K) is Dutch for Nucleus.
@@FafliXxSource
Step 2: Dark Matter Explosion
Step 3: Become The Flash
Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought "Star Labs Particle Accelerato?!"
@@ColeOutcastyeah exactly, it's just a particle exelarator
Bro this is what I immediately thought!
or any other super villain
@@oxygen6013 facts 💀
My dad was the project manager who installed the magnets in that ring. There’s a big photo in his office of him standing in the tunnel. We lived in Chicago at the time and my dad went to work in Switzerland for five months. There was no FaceTime or emails in 1972. I still have a pile of letters he wrote. He left in August and came home two days before Christmas.
That sounds super cool.. btw can you explain what exactly is the purpose of this? I don't quite understand TT
@@sedriaroun7487science
@@sedriaroun7487 It's particle physics. Basically taking a subatomic particle and breaking it up into it's components to study those components.
Was your dad at U Chicago?
And you couldn't tell us its the CERN super collider
Schools need to integrate science explained through animations like this FR 😭🤚
And what they get from that? Cool collision?
Answers and shitloads more questions, science is cool.
"My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive"
TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT:
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isnt Wally the fastest tho... like out of all 4 flashes
@@idehenebenezer802shut up
@@FilzahKhanin the comics yea, but everywhere else Barry is the fastest
And that's a particle accelerator for ya.
Its a waste of money, it hasn’t created anything new
@@thailandertravel Sorry to break it to you but nothing is science is done for a profit.
They just do things because they can.
And a collider too
@@thailandertravelif you only knew…
@@thailandertravelshowing your ignorance here aren’t you
That is the place Sheldon wanted to go in TBBT 😂
Poor Shelly
I recommend visiting CERN, It's incredibly fascinating there
I like the idea being
"We found really small things, what do we do?"
"Chuck them at each other."
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REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,
It’s exactly the kind of thing we did as 12 year olds. We’d try to shoot BBs at each other, but we’d aim to try and make the hit in the middle. We hoped for sparks, I think. Or maybe we hoped someone would get an eye put out. We were 12 and stupid. Now I’m more than half a century older and I still love the idea of throwing things at themselves or other things.
No. There are other reasons.
Flash!
The experiment was banging the particles together? What do they learn from that?
They have one at DESY in Hamburg too. Every time Nacht des Wissens (Night of Knowledge, a night event every few years where hundreds of scientific facilities open up to the public to make science graspable) comes around, they let you into the tunnels and explain what they do
Our parents always made it a point to go to DESY every time, that's not a chance you have often
Don't you all understand it's fake af !? Jesus is the King 👑 and he is coming soon ♥️
@@ThangaThalapathy75 how much can a carpenter from 2000 years ago know about particle physics?
ohhh wait that sounds awesome
@@ThangaThalapathy75 All religions are based off faith, even science was originally but all religions ring true that something made everything start. If there is a god and there probably is, it doesn't mean that it just Christ.also Don't swear it's rude.
@@ThangaThalapathy75 Keep believing is fairy tales! 🤣
Their proton salesman is really killing it.
Average minecraft project u do with your frinds in summer
Fun fact: sticking your head inside a particle accelerator has a 100% survival rate.
Fun fact about fun fact: It's because only 1 out of 1 person survived it which is hilarious
Interesting...
@@NinjaFlout thats what makes it funny.
Fun fact if you stand under a window and it gets hit by lightning while this machine explodes , you become the fastest man alive
@@Rabiazia11Dont forget the fingerprinting chemicals 😂😂⚡⚡
The fact that somebody fund it without the possibility for immediate military application is just crazy.
??
You’re so naive - who do you think built it?
@@brian_be_flyin @MbahMu9829 this research center CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) was founded in 1954 by 12 european countries. It is currently funded by 23 european countries with a total of 1,27 billion Euros. Japan and the USA in example have observer status and several countries like Australia, China and Canada have cooperation agreements. Thanks to the finance, universities and research institutes from all over the world can use this place for experiments and gaining knowledge of our universe. CERN has the status of international organization and the general director is always from a different country. The current director i.e. is a woman from Italy.
Good luck using this thing for military while basically the whole world is watching you. I don't know where you're from, but as a european I see this as a very american mindset.
@@brian_be_flyinThe governments of the UK, Germany, France, and Spain did the heavy lifting when it came to funding the LHC.
A lot of people think the USA and Japan need to pay their fair share for the larger accelerator they want to build. Not sure why we would pay for it though. It's literally called _Center _*_European_*_ nuclear research._
Oh, wait, nevermind. The Europeans think we should pay for everything... Sorry guys. If we're going to pay for a accelerator, we're not going to build it under Switzerland.
@@herrantonbecause you use the results of those experiments.
Would've been cool to hear a bit more about why they're doing what they're doing! What are they expecting to discover?
It's such a useful career!
I bet the patterns are never ending!
Didn't someone pass thru the beam once?
I always love how enthusiastically she explains all the stuff
Wouldn't it be nice if she explained what the purpose is, duh
I like adderall too 😂
My question is how do they “bring” particles into a tube which is as empty as space, a vacuum?
they pass hydrogen gas through an electric field, which strips the electrons off, leaving just the protons to use in the collision
@@not_even_me5035 Nice! Thanks!
I also needed to know that answer, thank you
@@not_even_me5035What about the neutrons?
@@deathmeter7243 the VAST majority of hydrogen has no neutrons.
I drive past CERN every day and always muse about this - it’s incredible what they’ve built there.
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN 🙌
My grandfather worked on this in throughout the 70's to the 90's, he's done numerous presentations at many universities in Europe and North America, he's also published two books, one about hadron spectroscopy and glueballs, hybrids and exotic hadrons . He received his Ph.D. at Berkeley, his name is Suh-Urk Chung, he's really a neat guy, Cleo.
Could I know your grandpa's name, if you don't mind..?
@@sandyjr5225 Suh-Urk Chung
@@sandyjr5225 he says the name in the comment tho
@@sandyjr5225 nah u trolling?
@@sandyjr5225bro did not read the comment 😭
for anyone curious, this is called the Large Hadron Collider ^^
Why didn't she say this??
@@ianbarnes961 To avoid titilliating some dyslexic people from misreading "Hadron"
@@finickyx Yeah the large hard-on collider is next door. They keep getting each other's mail.
The one Sheldon has been mentioning?! Wow! Didn't know it was true irl. Thanks for the info!
@@Summersimmie He mentions a lot of things that are true irl. Same in BBT. They know what they're writing
Slamming rocks together to make fire
When she said “biggest science experiment ever built” I thought it must be particle collision thingy😂
How the hell are they getting just protons? That is actually the cooler thing to me then keeping 2 impressively large tubes as a race track for the protons.
As the proton source, they start with hydrogen gas (just a proton and electron), and strip off the electrons using magnetic interactions. That leaves hydrogen nuclei, which are just bare protons.
It's easier than it sounds, it's just a Hydrogen atom that's been oxidized to remove its valence electron, leaving you with a single proton by itself.
@@ArkanoidZero okay and how do they do that to individual atoms? Or do they do it with a quantity it makes something actually able to be worked with. This whole process should be a video
@@jonathonvoegtli4699did you not watch the short? They are dealing with billions of atoms not individuals.
@@jonathonvoegtli4699 search up hydrogen ions and you will see the process :)
Damn! Flash is gonna be french 😢
je m'appelle Barry Allen et je suis l'homme le plus rapide du monde
@@phoenixwasnthereI find it incredible how the automatic translation feature translates to the actual quote "fastest man alive" instead of "fastest man in the world"
@@victormunhozzz Woah amazing
L comment
@@imperial2069🧂
the Hadron Collider is really fascinating
My highschool physics teacher liked to casually tell stories of how he worked there and how funny it was sometimes to go over the border from France to Switzerland basically telling the border guards "Sup dudes, yeah, just a regular day at the big ol' hadron collider, you?"
THIS IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE PLOT OF FLASH
??? Of course, this is how they got the idea...
@@alonsop9861 ik its js funny
Note: LHC is not an experiment -- It's an experiment *facility.* it allows people to do all sorts of different experiments.
I visited CERN when in geneva, a little underwhelming, i thought we would have got to see more, but im glad we went. The tour guide was lovely.
I’ve always wondered how this works. Now that makes perfect sense.
And weird freaky people say it's where Satan resides. No joke, I couldn't make up something so goofy...
i can explain why they say tgat
it’s more they will open a portal
@@truthmatters758elaborate how it will open up a portal lmao
@@user-yi6rg9kh8w In short the scientists want to see what happened moments before the big bang, there is a veil that covers reality and they basically want to rip it open and see what happens
Open a portal? This ain't Doom...
imagine explaining this to an ancient egyptian
you know how you can bang rocks together to make a fire? That's cause when they bang together they get hot. Banging two grains of sand together really fast makes glass. Banging two of something even smaller explodes them. And that's cool!
@@dylanmcloughlin2187 cool indeed
Only if they explain the building of the pyramids to me.
@@darnelltabor6382 honestly thats a genius idea
@@darnelltabor6382 although it is ALOT less complicated then we thought though, as they likely used hundreds or even thousands of slaves and just a bunch of scaffolding
I still remember that I see this in my school, it was 2010-2011, I'm not sure, but when I see the location, my mind was "Large Hadron Collider"
For people wondering can anything be colder than space?
Yes, The LHC's main magnets operate at a temperature of 1.9 K (-271.3°C), colder than the 2.7 K (-270.5°C) of outer space.
I'm currently working at CERN and it's so unreal how I went from watching videos like this with fascination to actually doing the things in those videos daily 😭
OMG wow that's awesome!!! Congrats and good job! ❤
Yeah and im in the ISS (kidding congratulations)
So why are they doing these experiments? What is the goal?
Just wondering ☺️
It’s not just the size that’s the issue. Protons repel each other. It’s like trying to force together the north poles of two magnets.
Lightning is the same thing. A bunch of electrons in a small area moving through space. What confines the electrons?
I believe she’s talking about CERN. First time I remember hearing about it was when they used it as part of the plot for Angels and demons. Of course they exaggerate the facts of that facility so that it works better with the plot, but still very well grounded. The real work done at the facility is fascinating.
not even just that, not cern but we now have linear particle accelerators which dont even measure the particles but measure the xrays released from the contact of electrons, now thats some cool science stuff
protons not electrons silly goose moment
It’s in the CERN Geneva, Switzerland, it’s the European nuclear research organisation
The hadron collider 😮
The equipment is called a Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Honestly the most surprising part to me is that “100 billion protons” “100 million times per second” is at all compatible with the pipes being “colder and emptier than the vacuum of outer space”
Thats a freaking partical accelerator. We about to get a damm flash
Large Hadron Collider.
Dude that would be so awesome
Who's volunteering to be the flash because I'm not
I kinda want to point out that this isn't the only particle accelerator out there. There are quite a few of them.
But I do kinda hope we get Flash one day, rip to the entire city where it happens, but you know Flash
So they built a particle collider.
Basically yeah.
It's all fake propaganda ! Jesus is the King 👑 every knees shall bow.
@@ThangaThalapathy75 keep ur religious bs out of unrelated spaces, please n ty
@@ThangaThalapathy75those people even believe Albania is real and its really crazy to think about. Jesus save those poor souls 🙏✝️
@@ThangaThalapathy75 no hate to jesus but I hope I can nail your :---
I personally run into things to make particles hit each other.
there was a man who some how leaned in front of an area of it and a partial went right through his head, things went black for a second and then he was fine and he just had headaches for awhile, but eventually he passed i think a few days after it happened. but that’s so crazy
Yeah, it's also bullshit as the beam path is fully enclosed in a magnetically shielded vacuum and totally inaccessible, it is impossible for anyone to get in the way of the beam.
this happened at an earlier accelerator, with lower energy (and lower safety precautions). getting your head in the LHC beam line would be very difficult practically speaking, but probably a lot more dangerous
ITS THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR FROM FLASHHHH
Ahhhhhh-ah. FLASH! 🎶 He’ll save every one of us!
why does everyone think this is some superhero thing? this is CERN
@@TheRatDefence it’s a joke bro
@@OHELLNAH434 so everyone who's commented saying it's from the flash is laughing at all the other comments saying it's from the flash?
@@TheRatDefence not like that
It is called the CERN. You can actually go and visit it (it also has a museum) if anyone is interested...
Well CERN is the company, the actual construction is called the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider!
CERN is a global institution. That would be like calling Cape Canaveral where rockets are launched "the NASA".
@@ObjectsInMotion This is a clip from the video, "What's Really Happening At CERN". It's in the description.
@@WalterWD Yes and? What the original poster said is still technically incorrect. The LHC is not called "the CERN".
They invented touchscreen somewhere in the 70's, but didn't bother to tell anybody, untill someone noticed it and brought it to everybody's attention.
Particle collider really is amazing so I get your fascination
Isn't this what gave Barry Allen his powers.
In the comics he was struck by lightning.
@@Patrick94GSR well yes and no, it has always been a story of him being in his lab and getting struck by lightning and chemicals falling on him. But in the CW flash show they added the particle accelerator, which seeded a storm of dark matter and ultimately a thunderstorm out of dark matter. Dark matter lightning hitting him with the chemicals and BAM. You get the CW flash.
For the price of this collider we could have eliminated food insecurity world-wide.
That's stupid and absurd. Some races never invented the wheel or any written language. The notion that we could keep them from being pathetic, backward, corrupt, and stupid, such that their problems and deficiencies go away, if we just throw enough money at them, is idiotic. Every American city with any substantial Black population shows the utter folly of this. Grow up and learn to observe and think.
Last time someone stated this, Elon Musk proposed to give the money in exchange of the fully transparent proof of the use of each dollar. The discussion has stoped after this message.
The Cern Supercollider cost 17 Billion to build, The US military has a yearly budget of over $700 Billion (and rising), what's your point?
i like how she explains it as some unknown strange science device and doesn't call it by its name the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the location is at CERN. But it is a good simple description of what happens there. I'd hate to see there operational cost.
The large hadron collider is modern marvel of technical and engineering achievement
So this is what the San-Ti were messing with
haha thats what i was thinking
What's the reference here? I know I'm missing something
It's from the show (and book series) the Three Body Problem. I highly recommend it!! Very much sci-FI tho
@@believer2it’s on Netflix
We don't have 4 of these though. There's only one more apart from LHC, which isn't even that big. I guess at some point when we make 4 of these we might be greeted by an alien civilisation...
“What do you do for work?”
“I create mini blackholes fight me”😊
There's a book by Dan brown about this very machine which is where I first learnt about it. His books are always good reads for anyone interested in history or science or symbology, etc.
in 2009, people thought this would create a black hole... the fear... sadly, they've been doing it for years prior to that.
Best illustration & description of a collider that I've ever seen! Nicely done.
My first thought was “magnets” and my second thought was “wait they’re already doing that”
Visited CERN! Very exciting
How cool it is that humans are trying to create a literal black hole 100m under the ground
as someone who has been to the 2nd layer of CERN, that place is amazing. but when i went there it was real cold because its was in february and you know how switzerland is in in the winters
Its amazing that we can do things like this, but there are still people that dont believe in science
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."
- Victor Stenger
Don't mind the ignorant, the religious or the stupid (same thing, different flavours), they never moved societies forward and yet, societies move forward anyway (even if sometimes there's a few steps back).
Science does not need to be believed, it can only be ignored.
And there are scientists who don't tell the truth.
its no belief in what they do with the results
@@andytaylor1588 No one told you to believe one scientist. Here's a little trick. You listen to the community consensus...if the community consensus doesn't seem like the truth to you, I have some news for you, it's called being willfully ignorant.
The hadron collider was completed in 2008, only a few years behind
Reminds me of a dude that accidentally puts his head in a particle accelerator
We BOUTTA Explode The Particle Accelerator And Become The Flash With This One🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
thawne about to make the flash bro
Now we know why Sheldon was so desperate to go to Switzerland with Leonard.
I live an hour away from the CERN... ( the french side ).
I was suprises to read about CERN in one of Dan Brown's books called "Angels and demons", which turned out to be a really fun and interesting book to read.
I would love to know why they do that.
To find the Higgs field
Our longer episode answers this! And I have another short coming for you on it :)
@@CleoAbram ty
We've discovered that physics doesn't stop. It just gets smaller and smaller all the way down. In order to study the parts which make up a proton or a neutron, at present our only method is to shatter them and study the wreckage.
This made a lot of sense! But what exactly is the purpose of this experiment?
By having the particles collide we can 'see' the smaller particles they're made of.
It's like know keys of piano sounds like by throwing down the steps
It’s not an experiment. It’s a tool for other experiments. Experiments that led to the invention of the device you used to type this comment.
@@cellizanadams6884 I doubt much consumer phone or PC tech has come out of particle acceleration experiments, yet.
@@cellizanadams6884 its actually a device used to study how skibidi rizz increases the work ethic of cashiers in police station restrooms
It’s called CERN and surprisingly, it’s free to visit.
When the particles successfully collide - The Blue Tube Device is connected-uh successfully
Everyone is gangsta until false vacuum decay occurs💀
Meh, likely wouldn't notice that event coming at me at C.
How do they get particles to hit each other? Get them into a heated argument, of course.
You'd do well at the bar of a British pub.
cern broke the timeline
I guess I always thought they fired individual particles. Makes sense they'd be firing millions instead
How do they load it and not contaminate it with other particles? Just watching that would be interesting to see.
Protons come from atoms of hydrogen of which they strip the electrons. The hydrogen comes from a H2 bottle.
The tube itself is not contaminated because they keep it at extreme vacuum conditions.
@@smockydevil and a big plus being, they work with tiny puffs of hydrogen, so avoid embrittlement problems that large samples can create.
Particle physics has always been the most fascinating field to me and when i first learned what they do at CERN, and even just what particle colliders do, i thought it was the most amazing, impressive, and beautiful, thing that we humans have been able to achieve.
why? Splitting an atom lead us to a bomb
@@tracymichaelsen493 literally changes nothing
In childhood I heard world will heat up and die after Particle Collider starts to work. 😂😂
The flash has entered the chat
The CERN. The largest shotgun that uses the smallest bullet.
Finally good quality data thank you ma’am
Superconducting Super Collider was to be bigger but, it was cancelled in 1993 due to budget issues.
The same concept is why many astrophysicists think that when the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies eventually merge, the likelihood of two stars interfering with each other, let alone actually colliding, will be unlikely.
There is a slight chance of some ejections though. Very few, as space is really big compared to stars.
Too bad i was born too early to witness this. I hope i can be reborn in the future
@@ShadowMoon878I kind of agree with you. You just might have to wait 4 billion years for that (the solar system has been around for just over 4 billion for reference)
... and before they turned it on for the first time a lot of people who knew nothing about science claimed it was going to cause a black hole.
I mean it theoretically can as far as I'm aware, just really small ones that would disappear instantly. But none has been observed so far.
@@istvankeri6688no it’s literally impossible. If that were possible we’d have trillions of micro black holes in our atmosphere every second. The LHC is absolutely nothing compared to what the universe throws at us so the idea of black holes at all is purely media driven.
The second I heard there was a tube one the tunnel I was just like "PARTICLE ACCELERATOR"
Why did i suddenly think about the particle accelerator in the flash
STEINS GATE
Was looking for this comment lol
Tangent but: Do y'all remember when news of the colliders first hit the news and there was mass hysteria about how it was gonna create a blackhole that would destroy the whole planet? I think about that all the time lmao.
Mankind is still working on destroying the whole planet in various ways. It's just not going to be from this "particular" science.
Can you do one video on what all has been achieved from the experiment you described? How would that knowledge be useful for human race?
I remember the flash in the end of season 1 particle accelerator & that's how flash seasons started.
Cleo, this channel’s always coming in with great content! The shorts are at such a high production value. The work you and your team do is a huge inspiration for my channel. Keep em coming! 👍