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 8-9pm:
Join teachers from around Scotland chatting with six particle physicists, including:
Lucy Budge
PhD Student
I’m currently working on collider physics – looking at specific processes that happen when we collide protons at experiments like the LHC at CERN. Specifically I’m studying processes involving the Higgs boson and gluons…
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!…
Also online tonight: Anne, Harrison, Savannah, and Susan.
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“My students are aware of the 2016 discovery of gravitational waves, but what do these waves tell us now we’re able to detect them?”
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