A few small technical corrections: 3:30 'Just below a million volts' should be 'just below a trillion volts' mega is million tera is trillion 3:43 '9.6 Celsius above zero' makes it sound like above 0 C, should specify that's above 0 Kelvin. We're talking liquid Helium temps here :p 6:34 to be a bit more precise(since we have the speed of light to very high precision), they say 99.9999991% the speed of light, equal to 299,792,455.3m/s, just under 3m/s slower than light. 7:30 the superconducting cable doesn't transfer power to the magnets, it IS the magnets and, 9:50 the liquid Helium isn't for cooling the 'heat of the collisions' or something, it's for keeping the superconducting magnets cold and thus, superconducting
Thank you :). Now I wish that RUclips would just bring back annotations, that million volts thing is particularly bad. And dammit on the 9.6 Celsius thing, I corrected that when I was editing, but must have undone the typo somehow.
@@megaprojects9649 Might be worth adding these useful corrections to the notes section where your social media and other channel info resides. Great channel :-)
i know Im randomly asking but does anybody know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost the password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me!
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae Antennas aren't dangerous, they don't emit nearly enough microwave radiation to cause any harm, also 5g doesn't spread the corona virus (yeah some people believe 5g spreads cobid 19)
@@Katniss218 Correct, both visible light and ultra violet light are both higher up in the EM spectrum than microwaves, in wave frequency and therefore power
No..No.. seriously, I'm 70 and my 6 yo granddaughter said today "Poppa, where do we come from? And I thought to myself "buggered if I know" And then I thought, Simon will know !!
It's on my scientific bucket list. Included also is, 1- The LIGO, Hanford Reservation, USA 2-The FAST, China 3-Baikonaur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan 4-Boca Chica Facility, USA 5-Cape Canaveral, USA 6-ESA Ariane facilities, French Guiana 7-ITER project, France This list will continue to grow as humanity reaches further and learns more about the forces of the universe.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - Deep underground 2:15 - Chapter 2 - Operational history 5:20 - Chapter 3 - The large hadron collider 7:55 - Chapter 4 - The beams 10:10 - Chapter 5 - The detectors 13:15 - Chapter 6 - Alice 15:10 - Chapter 7 - Time for an upgrade 16:10 - Chapter 8 - A league of its own
@Andy B that's a good one! I love how Business Blaze is craftily sneaking over to all of Simon 's channels - one ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them .... :-)
Needs to be a Like button in one direction, Dislike in the other. When they collide they will disintegrate into Like matter, Anti-Like matter and Itdoesnt matter.
In 2016 a weasel they use to clean the inside of the 300ft tubes chewed a power cable and shut down the LHC for 2 days, using a small fluffy animal to clean a multi billion machine seems insane to me.
Simon: "The human brain can't comprehend how high a temperature that is!" Me: Come visit Vegas in late July early August when my AC goes out. 😅😅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
As physics, with a Ph.D. in materials... I will forgive you... to understand the LHC is difficult for the people that study physics, and you make a few mistakes (breaking apart the matter...) but I understand the difficulties, so, thanks for this easy approximation to this incredible and difficult project.
I think it is kinda explaining the words that explain the words used to explain what happens there .... I managed to get full points for an paper in school physics class (we could take normal or "extra" ) on "how do suns form and work" and I have trouble understanding the lingo used at CERN... I do not really want to contemplate how to explain that stuff to someone who never did any reading up to get to the level "I that i know nothing for certain"
I grew up near and in the era of the Superconducting Supercollider. That thing was designed to be absolutely mind-boggling. 20 TeV per beam o.O We actually took a field trip to visit the site. I kinda wish they'd kick it back off instead of turning the site into an underground data center. Thanks for sharing!
Love these videos to the core. The often comedic, and prolific unbiased/journalistic approach is refreshing. As a huge nerd, I would love to see some mega-project vids about pop culture. How cool would it be to see a construction procedure about the Enterprise?
If you happen to be in the area, they give tours. You don't get to go down into the tunnels, even the physicists get to do that, but you do get to view the Atlas control room, it's a really neat tour. Two things to keep in mind, hotels in Geneva are targeted at diplomats and are ridiculously expensive, but there's an Ibis hotel on the French side of the border, and it's worth about what it costs, and that's not a whole lot. Good news is there's lots of food within driving distance. I'd recommend it if you have the chance.
@@megaprojects9649But but but but but but…. at that speed the passengers wouldn't age while everyone not on it would be dead for like... 10 years after their seemingly instantaneous trip. How awful for those people! That's what taxpayers are doing in the UK!? Outrageous!
7B is nothing for an international community. It is less then a cost of a single aircraft carrier XD Heck, there are enough private persons in the world who could finance it from own pocket.
Noam Chomsky made a career out of examining and explaining the differences between things like "second long shutdown" (even stress) and "second-long shutdown" (more stress on shutdown, first two words run together). Or "blackbird" vs "black bird." The same surface structure (or almost the same, if you ignore the stress pattern) comes from a completely different deep structure.
@@rabbi120348 IMHO what makes this interesting is vocal stress doesn't usually make such a huge difference in English :-) as opposed to many other languages!
Particles in the LHC are accelerated using a series of electromagnetic coils that fire in rapid succession, propelling the particles forwards, the same way a linear-motor accelerates a "shotgun-style" rollercoaster. Except instead of those coils needing to fire a few tenths of a second apart, they need to fire a few _billionths_ of a second apart. _In the correct order. Around a track several miles long._ Take a second to appreciate how accurate the electronics operating the LHC need to be to make that happen.
My Dad and I love your content Simon, and we'd suggested the LHC on a previous video along with some other ideas, however, while this was fascinating it was also disappointing. I was hoping to hear more on how they built the LHC, like the magnets and detectors you mentioned are insane, how did they even realize they needed to make them that large, and how did they build them? Etc etc. Ah well, great video regardless.
That would be great, but not in the usual time frame of his videos. You would need a full documentary to explain all that, and obviously, a lot more time to create such documentary. Besides, this is not entirely a science channel anyways so I think it's fine for what it is.
Yep, RUclips is sort of conductive to the 10-20 minute format at the moment, and series just do terribly :(. Sort of makes really deep dives a bit tricky.
Love your shows. I would love to see a show on the LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory). It can detect changes in the fabric of space time, 1/10000 width of a proton. It is a remarkable piece of engineering. the lens themselves are remarkable pieces of engineering, and are multiply hung on movement isolation pendulums. The vacuum chambers are similar to the LHC. Each of the legs are long enough, that the curvature of the earth comes into effect and need to be corrected. I still havent figured out whether LIGO is an analogy for a car traveling down a road that is being stretched; I mean wouldnt the car’s frame get stretched as well? Totally mind blowing.
I know right?!!!! That dumbass Stephen Hawking and his dumb statement that microscopic black holes could make the Higgs impossible to detect therefore creating Black hole.....
I love Whistler's talks, but this is the second Whistler error I found since last night. The first error was a minor error in regard to Hubble's Law.) The error error in this talk is far more serious. Whistler says that a Teraelectron (TeV) is about the greatest force in the universe. First of all, an electron Volt is not a unit of force , it is a unit of energy. Secondly, it is an extremely tiny unit of energy. It is about the energy expended during a brief flight of a mosquito. Although very small, the achievement of even 1 TeV is remarkable for 2 reasons. The first reason is that all of that energy is carried by an extremely small object (about 0.0000000000000000000000000001 kg.). Secondly, it is remarkable because achieving that amount of energy requires a vast machine capable of keeping the electron on a circular path at something close to the speed of light.
9:55 ya know, im always grateful for when people give temps in both C and F so everyone can get it to some extent, but i do wish that with EXTREMELY hot/cold temps, like in this case especially, i kinda wish i could also get a kelvin score so i have a reference from absolute zero as well. oh well, im on the internet and it takes even less effort to search my issues myself than even type this comment so off i go to learn individually!
“Colder then space” in deg C is a bit vague. K tells the story. Absolute zero is as difficult to achieve as perfect vacuum or perhaps light speed. (Ok light speed probably harder.)
Micah Ross Yes. 1 deg K is the same as 1 deg C. We all (most of us) know that. However in narrative “0.1 above absolute zero” comes across more descriptive than “neg 273.05 C”.
Start an episode of Megaprojects...find myself confused as it starts off like a BusinessBlaze Vid...Verdict: EPIC AS ALWAYS! Gonna have to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!
@@peterbustin2683 Uh-oh! Don't want any of those left wing commie civil rights supportin' HOMOSEXUALITY messin' up all our het-ro-sexual scientific endevors!
That's OK. Richard Dawkins accidentally published a book with "Large Hardon Collider" in it, too. No one caught the error until it was published. It was fixed in the second edition. XD
macgeek2004 it wasn’t published, the editor caught it. Dawkins claimed to have asked to leave it in, the editor refused, it was more than her job was worth. :)
Electron volts don't compare to Volts as they describe a different unit entirely; electron volts energy and volts electric potential. Therefore making the distinction at 3:31 that "0.98 TeV is just below a million volts" makes no sense Electron volts should be contrasted to joules. Electron volts are very small compared to joules by the way, even a high sounding energy is relatively small in reality
Simon, space doesn't really have a measurable temperature. On the Apollo missions, they had a "BBQ Roll" to even out the thermal radiation. The side facing the sun was heated up to over 200 degrees, and the other side was well into negative numbers. (Yes, Fahrenheit.) steve
Suggestion: Brooklyn Bridge, saw a documentary about its construction ages ago, was very interesting, refreshed my memory of it by reading the wikipedia article and the voice in my head reading it out was Simon, so in a way you've already made it! :P
Just imagine some one trying to understand wheat. To do so they slap together 2 slices of bread... really... really hard. Somehow this works. Hats off to you science, your doing amazing work.
When those sub-atomic particles collide, the energy is equal to a mosquito flying at 300 Km/h. Anyone thinking it could "create a black hole" is stupid. There is more energy in a ball of golf hit by a random golfer. This thing is, basically, the most expensive microwave ever made. Its goal is to heat a tiny portion of space in some experiments. One of the discoveries they made is that vacuum isn't empty, give it enough energy and you'll see "dead" particles emerge... and "die" again a few nanoseconds later. Pretty cool stuff. Also, they did not discover the Higgs particle but proved its existence.
Vertical Particles are... yeah, got to love the Feynman diagrams created to show that! The real problem wasn't if The Hadron Collider could create a Black Hole, it was a lack of understanding about Black Holes. The 'uneducated masses' assumed, if it did create one, that everything would just be sucked into the Black Hole and that would be the end of it all. In reality, any Black Holes created would be so weak that they would dissipate through Hawking Radiation. We would only realize it occurred when some poor data miner crunched the numbers and said 'wait... something is off here' in a very excited voice.
@@lostbutfreesoul I've never understood why black holes were so fascinating to people, you can literally describe everything about them with 3 properties, they are the single most boring thing in the universe. Even the vacuum is more interesting. They should have called them "balls of condensed matter" really ^-^ They don't seem to realize either that a black hole as dense as a basketball would attract you as much as a basketball... The only thing that I find cool about them is to think about how the universe was before the big bang (matter so condensed that it was a "black plasma") and then realize that in the middle of each black hole is precisely that. Then, think about the fact that the inside of the black hole (from the event horizon to the matter itself) is stretched. Which means that there is way more time and space inside a black hole that we can perceive from the outside. For all we know, inside each black hole is an entire universe. And even better, if you enter a black hole in our universe and end up in another one, then re-enter a black hole in that universe makes you end up in ours... Like a loop kind of thing. I don't believe that's the case, I just like thinking about our universe as a fractal that loops on itself.
For scientists black holes are actually really interesting. There's a lot of stuff going on with them which helps us explain how the universe works. That's why we try to observe them. For the general population...well yeah they simply exist. However thinking how completely different they are from our everyday interaction with the world is certainly something interesting. And as a sidenote: a collisionenergy of 14TeV is way, way more than a mosquito flying at 300km/h and also way more than a golfball is ever going to reach. Now technically the energy of the mosquite is roughly 7TeV. But that is all of the mosquito. In the LHC every single proton has an energy of 7TeV. If you were to place your hand in the LHC it wouldn't be like being hit by a mosquito. It would more likely be like being hit by a jumbo jet at full speed. Per fraction of a nanosecond.
A few ideas for Mega Projects Pretty much any of Brunel's projects. Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, Washington Norway's coastal highway Any famous buildings / icons Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland Panama Canal Three Gorges Dam / Aswan Dam Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, China (mostly cause it looks so cool) The dog fence in Australia.
Steven Whistler, I think you should do a Biographics episode on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish War hero and first president of The Republic Of Turkey 🇹🇷 A flawed but great politician, general, and man in general. Many other European leaders valued him and respected him.
I think every particle accelerator ever built was forecast to create a black hole. The one I work at was supposed to create an explosion which would travel backwards in time and create an impact which was seen on the moon a few years before we were scheduled to have first beam. (Didn't happen!)
Do a story on the largest single project by the US in WW2 if you have not already. The B29 strategic bomber project cost more than the Manhattan project.
How was this payed for? I can imagine a bunch of physicists going around asking: 'We would like to build a 17 mile long collider for our experiments'. The potential lenders asking: 'How much will it cost?' The reply; "Oh XX billion would give us a start'. The lender: 'What does this collider do?' Answer: 'It collides protons.' Lender: 'What is the payback?' Answer: 'We're not sure. Its all theoretical; but it would be really cool.' Lender: 'Cool, eh! Here's a few billion.'
One last point to make.. It's all about the Upgrayedd With a Double Dose of Pim pin isn't easy.. Yet if I had to guess, it's a cyclical ent roping the Dark tower..
7TeV is about 2e-6 joules. 1 mole of stuff is 6e23 atoms. 1 mole of particles with 7TeV of energy has about 1e18J total , or in the order of hundreds of petajoules of energy. For scale the worlds most powerful nuclear explosion ever is the Tsar bomb at about 230 Petajoules.
6.5 Teraelectronvolts is actually not much energy in terms of our everyday life. It is much when considering the size of atoms though. It is about 1.04x10^-7 joules. For comparison 1 joule of energy will lift a medium-size apple (100 g) 1 meter vertically from the surface of the Earth. Just something I wanted to point out
Hey Simon! Could you PLEASE do a mega projects video on fusion reactors? (While I have you here, I would like you to know that I have watched most of the content you’ve put out. I have learned so much and I’m so appreciative of all that you do. I don’t know you and yet you’ve taught me so much…The future is wild.) Keep on keepin’ on brother 🤙
>>Mr. Whistler: My Shabbat morning in self-quarantine is complete. First off, I watched the video about the Crystal Palace, please see, then with the very next munch of eggs, LH-Collider -- who could wish for anything more? Kinda-sorta puts the creation of the world into focus? >>I hope others caught the size of the human silhouettes in comparison to "Alice," was it? The huge magnet. And when you cited the number of personnel, I had to gasp: I could only think of ants scrambling to achieve survival. Did you know there is a giant worm out here in Paulose (sp?), Oregon? Seriously monstrous but farmers love its casings. The region is named for the worm. >>So, maybe science can win one for the folks defeating COVID-19? >>Please continue your work. >>Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada.
Just visited CERN last week and went down in the cavern of the ALICE detector. So fun to see many things in this video that I have seen in real life (thanks to a friend of mine who is part of the ATLAS collaboration). Next visit will be for CMS. Each of the detectors deserves a separate video, don't you think?
Additional error: Whistler later describesTeV in terms of Volts which is also incorrect (B Ueb also makes this error in his comments). An electron volt is the work energy required to accelerate an electron through a potential difference of 1 volt. There are several other minor errors in this podcast. Too bad because I really enjoy Simon's talks.
A few small technical corrections:
3:30 'Just below a million volts' should be 'just below a trillion volts' mega is million tera is trillion
3:43 '9.6 Celsius above zero' makes it sound like above 0 C, should specify that's above 0 Kelvin. We're talking liquid Helium temps here :p
6:34 to be a bit more precise(since we have the speed of light to very high precision), they say 99.9999991% the speed of light, equal to 299,792,455.3m/s, just under 3m/s slower than light.
7:30 the superconducting cable doesn't transfer power to the magnets, it IS the magnets and, 9:50 the liquid Helium isn't for cooling the 'heat of the collisions' or something, it's for keeping the superconducting magnets cold and thus, superconducting
Thank you :). Now I wish that RUclips would just bring back annotations, that million volts thing is particularly bad.
And dammit on the 9.6 Celsius thing, I corrected that when I was editing, but must have undone the typo somehow.
@@megaprojects9649 Might be worth adding these useful corrections to the notes section where your social media and other channel info resides. Great channel :-)
You're a lovely nerd for writing this
Megaprojects comments will have to do, annotations were terrible and annoying when used by some creators
@@megaprojects9649 3:30 and also the electron volt eV is a unit of measure of energy ( joul) not a difference of electric potential
"They are probably the same people burning down the 5g towers because they are idiots" 🤣🤣🤣 thats gotta be the statement of the year
Do a program on how 5G causes cancer first before you call them idiots.....
@@rRobertSmith : and we should ban water because people drown in it.
@@rRobertSmith You're a god damned kook. Crazy fuckwit. plz don't breed or vote.
@@rRobertSmith mate, the fucking sun causes cancer. Stop being scared of fast internet speeds.
@@rRobertSmith well, i accept any research to be done of this, but any effects of 5g on cancer is pretty minimal as of current knowledge.
3:14 : Fourthly, it reduces the number of particles from cosmic rays being picked up by our detectors and interfering with measurements.
Simon dragging 5G conspiracy theorists absolutely made my day, and it's only 12:38 AM
Wait till our lizard rulers hear about you. The aliens living around us will be laughing themselves silly.
Omg! Fast storage, kill it! Do you think their ancestors tried to destroy the first filing cabinet
😂🤓
i know Im randomly asking but does anybody know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb lost the password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me!
@Jaxson Ariel instablaster :)
Just for the first 25 seconds you get a like from me!
Smash that Dislike button. He prefers it. Really. Lol
@@todddougherty9492 You know it.
Should be a Civ6 wonder XD
You should really join BusinessBlaze then if you haven't ^^
Request: The ITER ( International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France. Alongside with nuclear fusion.
Boy that would be a great video if it actually worked
i was about to write that;D
"They're idiots!" Truth, complete truth.
Yes people are idiots for not wanting to live near dangerous microwave antennas. We are the idiots for being careful. Not you, mindless city drones.
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae Antennas aren't dangerous, they don't emit nearly enough microwave radiation to cause any harm, also 5g doesn't spread the corona virus (yeah some people believe 5g spreads cobid 19)
Varangian af Scaniae At least you accept the fact.
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae That's the thing. The 5G antennas are not dangerous. You'd get more harm from the sun than these antennas
@@Katniss218 Correct, both visible light and ultra violet light are both higher up in the EM spectrum than microwaves, in wave frequency and therefore power
CERN: ARE YOU DOWN WITH LHC!
Simon: (hands in the air) YA YOU KNOW ME!!!!
No..No.. seriously,
I'm 70 and my 6 yo granddaughter said today "Poppa, where do we come from?
And I thought to myself "buggered if I know"
And then I thought, Simon will know !!
It's on my scientific bucket list.
Included also is,
1- The LIGO, Hanford Reservation, USA
2-The FAST, China
3-Baikonaur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
4-Boca Chica Facility, USA
5-Cape Canaveral, USA
6-ESA Ariane facilities, French Guiana
7-ITER project, France
This list will continue to grow as humanity reaches further and learns more about the forces of the universe.
Bletchley park, Oak Ridge and other national labs are interesting places too.
Elon musk cat girl factory
Baikonur was covered on Geographics
@@Kabodanki that's probably in Boca Chica along with Starship ;)
Super-Kamiokande
0:40 - Chapter 1 - Deep underground
2:15 - Chapter 2 - Operational history
5:20 - Chapter 3 - The large hadron collider
7:55 - Chapter 4 - The beams
10:10 - Chapter 5 - The detectors
13:15 - Chapter 6 - Alice
15:10 - Chapter 7 - Time for an upgrade
16:10 - Chapter 8 - A league of its own
"They burn 5G towers because they are idiots"🤣👍
Qn m no kw I m
When you tell people that stupid to "smash that dislike button", I like to imagine they actually take a claw hammer to their computer screen..
I'm on my phone, so I really gotta line it up.
@Andy B that's a good one! I love how Business Blaze is craftily sneaking over to all of Simon 's channels - one ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them .... :-)
its okay for me, i already tippexed over it...
We are all missing the whole point and that is that we as bystanders can only be able to bring some
Reeeeeeeeeeeeee more
I like to think they hold their thumb over the dislike button. And slam it down with a blow from a 10 lb sledgehammer.
0:20 Thank you Simon, Thank you
Did anyone else hear Powerman 5000 in their head, every time Simon says, “collide” ? 😂
"Smash that like button, by loading two like buttons into a tube, accelerating them to near-light speed ..."
Needs to be a Like button in one direction, Dislike in the other. When they collide they will disintegrate into Like matter, Anti-Like matter and Itdoesnt matter.
Skraeling1000 - 👏 👍
"and they're just making this shit in switzerland."
Another fan of MrBallen?
@@ladyalibat6564 I'm familiar with his work but this comment predates me finding MrBallen's channel.
In 2016 a weasel they use to clean the inside of the 300ft tubes chewed a power cable and shut down the LHC for 2 days, using a small fluffy animal to clean a multi billion machine seems insane to me.
Simon: "The human brain can't comprehend how high a temperature that is!"
Me: Come visit Vegas in late July early August when my AC goes out. 😅😅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Johnny Cash comes to mind.
😎so you’re saying it’s too hot to microwave a burrito?
Dubai at the height of summer.
South Florida on August! The humidity is horrible..
@@markkarasik2211 Nah just put the burrito on your porch and it will burn outside and stay frozen inside.
I love it when journalists/media-figures actually call idiots, idiots. We need more of that.
The issue is most media figures and journalists arn't much better themselves.
As physics, with a Ph.D. in materials... I will forgive you... to understand the LHC is difficult for the people that study physics, and you make a few mistakes (breaking apart the matter...) but I understand the difficulties, so, thanks for this easy approximation to this incredible and difficult project.
I think it is kinda explaining the words that explain the words used to explain what happens there .... I managed to get full points for an paper in school physics class (we could take normal or "extra" ) on "how do suns form and work" and I have trouble understanding the lingo used at CERN... I do not really want to contemplate how to explain that stuff to someone who never did any reading up to get to the level "I that i know nothing for certain"
I grew up near and in the era of the Superconducting Supercollider. That thing was designed to be absolutely mind-boggling. 20 TeV per beam o.O We actually took a field trip to visit the site.
I kinda wish they'd kick it back off instead of turning the site into an underground data center.
Thanks for sharing!
Love these videos to the core. The often comedic, and prolific unbiased/journalistic approach is refreshing. As a huge nerd, I would love to see some mega-project vids about pop culture. How cool would it be to see a construction procedure about the Enterprise?
Next video could be Fusion reactor ITER. tokamak reactor beeing built in france. :)
great videos thank you
The issuea are 1 it's still being built 2 we dont know if it will work 3 fusion is 20 years away
Simon, I don't know how they picked you as the host of these but I'm damned glad they did. You're awesome. You do a great job & I love the humor.
Check out the channel Business blaze if you like his humor. I will say tho start watching all the older videos first.
If you happen to be in the area, they give tours. You don't get to go down into the tunnels, even the physicists get to do that, but you do get to view the Atlas control room, it's a really neat tour. Two things to keep in mind, hotels in Geneva are targeted at diplomats and are ridiculously expensive, but there's an Ibis hotel on the French side of the border, and it's worth about what it costs, and that's not a whole lot. Good news is there's lots of food within driving distance. I'd recommend it if you have the chance.
Man, if the LHC cost $7B, I'm looking forwards to the bells and whistles that they must be adding to HS2 for £50B...
The trains travel at close to the speed of light.
But unfortunately just go round in circles.
Sums Britain up quite well...
@@megaprojects9649But but but but but but…. at that speed the passengers wouldn't age while everyone not on it would be dead for like... 10 years after their seemingly instantaneous trip. How awful for those people! That's what taxpayers are doing in the UK!? Outrageous!
7B is nothing for an international community. It is less then a cost of a single aircraft carrier XD Heck, there are enough private persons in the world who could finance it from own pocket.
@@qewqeqeqwew3977 yet wars are going on for what?
It's my boi Simon without the Blaze
" its so cutting edge we don't even know what we will find" the words science lives by lol
make a vid about ITER
I'd love to see the great wall of China featured on the channel!
"They are idiots!", I like that.
4:39 "second-long shutdown and is scheduled to be back online in 2021" - that is indeed a long second. BADA-BUM-TSHHHHH
TSHSHHSHSHS
@@megaprojects9649 My bacon, it fries.
Noam Chomsky made a career out of examining and explaining the differences between things like "second long shutdown" (even stress) and "second-long shutdown" (more stress on shutdown, first two words run together). Or "blackbird" vs "black bird." The same surface structure (or almost the same, if you ignore the stress pattern) comes from a completely different deep structure.
@@rabbi120348 IMHO what makes this interesting is vocal stress doesn't usually make such a huge difference in English :-) as opposed to many other languages!
@@cheaterman49 It actually mostly distinguishes dialects, as in "put the emphásis on the wrong sylláble" in the Islands mon.
Particles in the LHC are accelerated using a series of electromagnetic coils that fire in rapid succession, propelling the particles forwards, the same way a linear-motor accelerates a "shotgun-style" rollercoaster. Except instead of those coils needing to fire a few tenths of a second apart, they need to fire a few _billionths_ of a second apart. _In the correct order. Around a track several miles long._ Take a second to appreciate how accurate the electronics operating the LHC need to be to make that happen.
You had me at: “they are idiots”
So, we're way above 1.21 gigawatts. I demand a flux compasitor.
My Dad and I love your content Simon, and we'd suggested the LHC on a previous video along with some other ideas, however, while this was fascinating it was also disappointing. I was hoping to hear more on how they built the LHC, like the magnets and detectors you mentioned are insane, how did they even realize they needed to make them that large, and how did they build them? Etc etc. Ah well, great video regardless.
That would be great, but not in the usual time frame of his videos. You would need a full documentary to explain all that, and obviously, a lot more time to create such documentary. Besides, this is not entirely a science channel anyways so I think it's fine for what it is.
Yep, RUclips is sort of conductive to the 10-20 minute format at the moment, and series just do terribly :(. Sort of makes really deep dives a bit tricky.
Love your shows. I would love to see a show on the LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory). It can detect changes in the fabric of space time, 1/10000 width of a proton. It is a remarkable piece of engineering. the lens themselves are remarkable pieces of engineering, and are multiply hung on movement isolation pendulums. The vacuum chambers are similar to the LHC. Each of the legs are long enough, that the curvature of the earth comes into effect and need to be corrected. I still havent figured out whether LIGO is an analogy for a car traveling down a road that is being stretched; I mean wouldnt the car’s frame get stretched as well? Totally mind blowing.
Particle physics gives me a Hadron
This is unbelievably fascinating. Thanks allot Simon for sending me down the LHC rabbit hole!
Very Nice. I studied Quantum Physics about 25 years ago. Glad to see we're making progress.
Not half a minute in, and I want to give this man a hug.
I would as well but the guilt I am feeling from lighting those fires is terrible.
Literally right from the get go we all knew this would be a great video 😂
You gotta SMASH that dislike button first, its the law
@@Texassince1836 had to do it but disliked then immediately liked 😂
I know right?!!!! That dumbass Stephen Hawking and his dumb statement that microscopic black holes could make the Higgs impossible to detect therefore creating Black hole.....
I love Whistler's talks, but this is the second Whistler error I found since last night. The first error was a minor error in regard to Hubble's Law.) The error error in this talk is far more serious. Whistler says that a Teraelectron (TeV) is about the greatest force in the universe. First of all, an electron Volt is not a unit of force , it is a unit of energy. Secondly, it is an extremely tiny unit of energy. It is about the energy expended during a brief flight of a mosquito. Although very small, the achievement of even 1 TeV is remarkable for 2 reasons. The first reason is that all of that energy is carried by an extremely small object (about 0.0000000000000000000000000001 kg.). Secondly, it is remarkable because achieving that amount of energy requires a vast machine capable of keeping the electron on a circular path at something close to the speed of light.
Waiting for that business blaze “allegedly” to leak over into one of the other channels after the “smash that dislike button” 😂
Video suggestion: Perhaps a video on the planning and construction of Channel Tunnel, if you haven't already?
9:55 ya know, im always grateful for when people give temps in both C and F so everyone can get it to some extent, but i do wish that with EXTREMELY hot/cold temps, like in this case especially, i kinda wish i could also get a kelvin score so i have a reference from absolute zero as well. oh well, im on the internet and it takes even less effort to search my issues myself than even type this comment so off i go to learn individually!
“Colder then space” in deg C is a bit vague. K tells the story.
Absolute zero is as difficult to achieve as perfect vacuum or perhaps light speed. (Ok light speed probably harder.)
Kelvin is the same as Celsius you just need to add or subtract 273.15 depending on which direction you're converting
Micah Ross
Yes. 1 deg K is the same as 1 deg C. We all (most of us) know that.
However in narrative “0.1 above absolute zero” comes across more descriptive than “neg 273.05 C”.
I've been waiting for this one, I knew it had to be coming.
Please do an entry on ITER (fusion reactor)
Can you do one on the Potala Palace? It's super old and super significant. Lots of interesting history in the 20th century
Start an episode of Megaprojects...find myself confused as it starts off like a BusinessBlaze Vid...Verdict: EPIC AS ALWAYS! Gonna have to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!
I read that as "large hardon collider" for years.
And was thus inspired to become a physicist leading to an inevitable but entirely aboveground collision with disappointment? 😉
Thats very gay....
@@peterbustin2683 Uh-oh! Don't want any of those left wing commie civil rights supportin' HOMOSEXUALITY messin' up all our het-ro-sexual scientific endevors!
That's OK. Richard Dawkins accidentally published a book with "Large Hardon Collider" in it, too.
No one caught the error until it was published. It was fixed in the second edition. XD
macgeek2004 it wasn’t published, the editor caught it. Dawkins claimed to have asked to leave it in, the editor refused, it was more than her job was worth. :)
You know you've been watching too much of Simon and his channels when the tunes start getting stuck in your head.
Electron volts don't compare to Volts as they describe a different unit entirely; electron volts energy and volts electric potential. Therefore making the distinction at 3:31 that "0.98 TeV is just below a million volts" makes no sense
Electron volts should be contrasted to joules. Electron volts are very small compared to joules by the way, even a high sounding energy is relatively small in reality
Suggestion: The Alaska pipeline. (The part where they had to dig it up again to weld it properly might even belong in Business Blaze)
Simon, your blaze is showing.
I like it.
Brilliant video as always! The opening comment was brilliant haha.
Simon, space doesn't really have a measurable
temperature. On the Apollo missions, they had
a "BBQ Roll" to even out the thermal radiation.
The side facing the sun was heated up to over 200
degrees, and the other side was well into negative
numbers. (Yes, Fahrenheit.)
steve
Very interesting, I have wondered about this machine. I think the Chicago area was in the bidding for this back in the start.
Maybe a side projects on all the failed modern colliders? We have one by me in Waxahachie Texas that's just a big underground data storage unit now
BTW Billion-USD are peanuts wrt military expenditure of any 'large' nation (and this per year, not over >20 years project duration)!
"Smash that dislike button" finally migrated here from buisness blaze 😂
Business Blaze DGAF
Best part of the whole video is the introduction.
Suggestion: Brooklyn Bridge, saw a documentary about its construction ages ago, was very interesting, refreshed my memory of it by reading the wikipedia article and the voice in my head reading it out was Simon, so in a way you've already made it! :P
Just imagine some one trying to understand wheat.
To do so they slap together 2 slices of bread... really... really hard.
Somehow this works.
Hats off to you science, your doing amazing work.
I'll never look at CERN the same again after Steins Gate
Do you know if your microwave spins clockwise or counterclockwise?
Mega projects of WWII. Most would think of the A bomb, but the B29 project cost over twice as much. A B29 mega project would be much appreciated.
"Because they are idiots." I love it
When those sub-atomic particles collide, the energy is equal to a mosquito flying at 300 Km/h. Anyone thinking it could "create a black hole" is stupid. There is more energy in a ball of golf hit by a random golfer. This thing is, basically, the most expensive microwave ever made. Its goal is to heat a tiny portion of space in some experiments. One of the discoveries they made is that vacuum isn't empty, give it enough energy and you'll see "dead" particles emerge... and "die" again a few nanoseconds later. Pretty cool stuff.
Also, they did not discover the Higgs particle but proved its existence.
Vertical Particles are... yeah, got to love the Feynman diagrams created to show that!
The real problem wasn't if The Hadron Collider could create a Black Hole, it was a lack of understanding about Black Holes. The 'uneducated masses' assumed, if it did create one, that everything would just be sucked into the Black Hole and that would be the end of it all. In reality, any Black Holes created would be so weak that they would dissipate through Hawking Radiation. We would only realize it occurred when some poor data miner crunched the numbers and said 'wait... something is off here' in a very excited voice.
@@lostbutfreesoul I've never understood why black holes were so fascinating to people, you can literally describe everything about them with 3 properties, they are the single most boring thing in the universe. Even the vacuum is more interesting. They should have called them "balls of condensed matter" really ^-^ They don't seem to realize either that a black hole as dense as a basketball would attract you as much as a basketball...
The only thing that I find cool about them is to think about how the universe was before the big bang (matter so condensed that it was a "black plasma") and then realize that in the middle of each black hole is precisely that. Then, think about the fact that the inside of the black hole (from the event horizon to the matter itself) is stretched. Which means that there is way more time and space inside a black hole that we can perceive from the outside. For all we know, inside each black hole is an entire universe. And even better, if you enter a black hole in our universe and end up in another one, then re-enter a black hole in that universe makes you end up in ours... Like a loop kind of thing.
I don't believe that's the case, I just like thinking about our universe as a fractal that loops on itself.
Lol, a ball of golf
@@eeHMFIC Oh yeah ^-^ A golf ball ! I'm French, we say "une balle de golf"
For scientists black holes are actually really interesting. There's a lot of stuff going on with them which helps us explain how the universe works. That's why we try to observe them.
For the general population...well yeah they simply exist. However thinking how completely different they are from our everyday interaction with the world is certainly something interesting.
And as a sidenote: a collisionenergy of 14TeV is way, way more than a mosquito flying at 300km/h and also way more than a golfball is ever going to reach. Now technically the energy of the mosquite is roughly 7TeV. But that is all of the mosquito. In the LHC every single proton has an energy of 7TeV. If you were to place your hand in the LHC it wouldn't be like being hit by a mosquito. It would more likely be like being hit by a jumbo jet at full speed. Per fraction of a nanosecond.
“I’ll take Gigantic Money Pit for $100, Alex”.
Simon: "...and what's the meaning of life?"
Me: 42!
Simon: "and indeed that last one is a joke"
Oh...
Thank you Simon
The peoples palace in Romania would be a cool megaproject to go over. It's the heaviest building in the world and in the top 10 largest buildings.
Build another Hadron collider next to the existing one in the shape of a figure 8 and in the future keep adding until it's a long DNA double helix
You HAVE to do ITER next! (The fusion reactor)
El Psy Kongroo!
Damn dude I think that is legitimately the best like to dislike ratio I have ever beheld
A few ideas for Mega Projects
Pretty much any of Brunel's projects.
Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, Washington
Norway's coastal highway
Any famous buildings / icons
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland
Panama Canal
Three Gorges Dam / Aswan Dam
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, China (mostly cause it looks so cool)
The dog fence in Australia.
You should do one on the Georgia aquarium that thing is bloody massive
Steven Whistler, I think you should do a Biographics episode on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish War hero and first president of The Republic Of Turkey 🇹🇷 A flawed but great politician, general, and man in general. Many other European leaders valued him and respected him.
Not sure what exactly about it strikes me, but I think this is my favorite of the Megaprojects videos.
Great story. Thanks.
Sounds like a group of nerds, running around, playing with sparklers..."ERMAGERD....SPERKLERS !!"
The James Webb Telescope would make a great episode.
CAN YOU DO LIGO PLEASE???
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
I think every particle accelerator ever built was forecast to create a black hole. The one I work at was supposed to create an explosion which would travel backwards in time and create an impact which was seen on the moon a few years before we were scheduled to have first beam.
(Didn't happen!)
Do a story on the largest single project by the US in WW2 if you have not already. The B29 strategic bomber project cost more than the Manhattan project.
How was this payed for? I can imagine a bunch of physicists going around asking: 'We would like to build a 17 mile long collider for our experiments'. The potential lenders asking: 'How much will it cost?' The reply; "Oh XX billion would give us a start'. The lender: 'What does this collider do?' Answer: 'It collides protons.' Lender: 'What is the payback?' Answer: 'We're not sure. Its all theoretical; but it would be really cool.' Lender: 'Cool, eh! Here's a few billion.'
Signs of new physics,. I struggle to spell 'old physics' lol
Hey Simon you should really do an episode on the Iter project. It involves fusion energry.
One last point to make..
It's all about the Upgrayedd
With a Double Dose of Pim pin isn't easy.. Yet if I had to guess, it's a cyclical ent roping the Dark tower..
So relieved to learn that this is shut down during 2020...
It's quite complex not simple. Instantaneous transfer of enormous amounts of information. Hard to comprehend for the Lehman.
7TeV is about 2e-6 joules. 1 mole of stuff is 6e23 atoms. 1 mole of particles with 7TeV of energy has about 1e18J total , or in the order of hundreds of petajoules of energy. For scale the worlds most powerful nuclear explosion ever is the Tsar bomb at about 230 Petajoules.
6.5 Teraelectronvolts is actually not much energy in terms of our everyday life. It is much when considering the size of atoms though. It is about 1.04x10^-7 joules. For comparison 1 joule of energy will lift a medium-size apple (100 g) 1 meter vertically from the surface of the Earth. Just something I wanted to point out
One fingernail clipping worth of protons each with that energy can power the entire worlds energy consumption for 44 minutes.
Hey Simon! Could you PLEASE do a mega projects video on fusion reactors?
(While I have you here, I would like you to know that I have watched most of the content you’ve put out. I have learned so much and I’m so appreciative of all that you do. I don’t know you and yet you’ve taught me so much…The future is wild.)
Keep on keepin’ on brother 🤙
This is sooooo cool. My favourite thing ever. Physics is siiick
>>Mr. Whistler: My Shabbat morning in self-quarantine is complete. First off, I watched the video about the Crystal Palace, please see, then with the very next munch of eggs, LH-Collider -- who could wish for anything more? Kinda-sorta puts the creation of the world into focus?
>>I hope others caught the size of the human silhouettes in comparison to "Alice," was it? The huge magnet. And when you cited the number of personnel, I had to gasp: I could only think of ants scrambling to achieve survival. Did you know there is a giant worm out here in Paulose (sp?), Oregon? Seriously monstrous but farmers love its casings. The region is named for the worm.
>>So, maybe science can win one for the folks defeating COVID-19?
>>Please continue your work.
>>Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada.
Absolute legend! Simon is #goals
Just visited CERN last week and went down in the cavern of the ALICE detector.
So fun to see many things in this video that I have seen in real life (thanks to a friend of mine who is part of the ATLAS collaboration).
Next visit will be for CMS.
Each of the detectors deserves a separate video, don't you think?
Additional error: Whistler later describesTeV in terms of Volts which is also incorrect (B Ueb also makes this error in his comments). An electron volt is the work energy required to accelerate an electron through a potential difference of 1 volt. There are several other minor errors in this podcast. Too bad because I really enjoy Simon's talks.
You got a like from me straight after your comments about black holes and burning down 5G towers. Nice!
Watched a few of your Megaprojects vids and this is my favourite one yet. Very well done.