Lessons from the International Space Station | Samuel Ting | Nobel Conference
Samuel Ting presents "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on the International Space Station" at the 49th annual Nobel Conference: The Universe at Its Limits. Which took place at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2013.
Samuel C.C. Ting, Ph.D.
Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Experimental physicist Samuel Ting shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics with Burton Richter of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.” Their discovery of the J/ψ meson nuclear particle opened the door to the identification of a whole family of new particles. Ting is also the principal investigator for the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011, a project involving 500 scientists from 56 institutions and 16 countries.
Subjects:
-Beginning of Lecture (6:07)
-Launch of AMS (7:44)
-Physics of Charged Cosmic Rays (8:13)
-Goals of AMS (10:56)
-AMS: An International Collaboration (14:06)
-Testing AMS (19:05)
-AMS in Space (23:58)
-Results of First Two Years (28:17)
-Comparison to Theoretical Models (33:45)
-New Results (35:47)
-PAMELA (38:15)
-Future Use of AMS (41:04)
-Discoveries in Physics (44:49)
-The Future of Discovery (48:07)
-Beginning of Q&A (56:10)
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What a great story -- about an experiment that most people don't even know exists!
This is a great story. I found his story about how he wanted to be left alone for 4hrs with the spectrometer before the launch to be very moving. All his and many many other peoples' efforts, sweat, and determination to make this thing work, then you launch it and it is do or die. It's a pretty brave thing actually.
14th century the Catholic Church would have burned him for heresy . And today in the 21st Century the Muslim faith would stone him to death for his heresy. Obviously this is a human worth listening to and to be regarded . I personally have really enjoyed listening to Dr Ting. I hope his continued research and scientific efforts keep us well informed and enlightened .
Following the Creationist antics from Europe, I cannot help but shake my head in disappointment. I cannot, for the love of the non existing entity with three letters, understand what drives a human being to claiming that the scripture is written proof of the existence of this fairy tale. I really hope reason prevails in this debate rather sooner than later and people can finally reject religious claims and expel that from politics and education.
Now we know this is all made up will we be holding everyone accountable for the lies or just blindly pretend it never happened 🙃