Science moves fast. And few areas moved further in the last century (or needed bigger, more complicated experiments) than Particle physics.
Get answers to your questions about this most ‘elementary’ of fields from the particle physicists themselves. Join tonight’s informal live CHAT session, open from 8pm:
Join teachers from around Scotland chatting with six particle physicists, including:
Scott Lawrie
Particle Accelerator Physicist
The machine I help run studied moon rock recently to see if it would make a good bricks to build a moonbase. Imagine a 3D-printed Hobbit-home nestled into a crater, keeping astronauts warm and shielding them from space radiation!…
Susan Cartwright
Physics Professor
One exciting thing that has happened fairly recently is the detection of very high energy neutrinos from an active galaxy. This should help us to answer a question that has been puzzling particle physicists and astrophysicists for nearly a century: what is the origin of cosmic rays?
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