Higgs Boson
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince visit CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva in search of the Higgs boson. Joining them on their particular quest is comedian Katy Brand, actor Ben Miller and physicists Tevong You and Clara Nellist. They find out which particle is the one you’d most want to spend time with at a party, how cosmology is inspiring experiments in the collider and why the Higgs Boson - known as the 'god' particle' - is of so much interest to science.
Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Robin Ince and welcome to The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:50.0 | And today for the final episode of this series we have brought Brian home because we are in |
| 0:56.4 | Geneva at CERN, home of the Atlas Experiment, the Large Hadron Collider and of course also as |
| 1:02.4 | we know from the British tabloid press, the world's |
| 1:05.3 | premier creator of bonsai black holes, little mini black holes that will undoubtedly |
| 1:11.9 | ultimately destroy civilization. |
| 1:15.0 | So how do you make the black holes here, Brian? |
| 1:17.8 | Well, the first thing to say to the listener's this is dribble. |
| 1:20.6 | But you know when you want to be remembered for a quote by you know Carl Sagan's billions and |
| 1:26.6 | billions which she never said or something like that? |
| 1:28.6 | The Cosmos is everything there is everything there was everything there was and everything |
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