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

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you :). Now I wish that KZread 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.

@markwherry

4 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 Might be worth adding these useful corrections to the notes section where your social media and other channel info resides. Great channel :-)

@PilgrimEnge

4 жыл бұрын

You're a lovely nerd for writing this

@klb12393

4 жыл бұрын

Megaprojects comments will have to do, annotations were terrible and annoying when used by some creators

@francescoiacono250

4 жыл бұрын

​@@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

@rRobertSmith

3 жыл бұрын

Do a program on how 5G causes cancer first before you call them idiots.....

@drewthompson7457

3 жыл бұрын

@@rRobertSmith : and we should ban water because people drown in it.

@cirithduath7526

3 жыл бұрын

@@rRobertSmith You're a god damned kook. Crazy fuckwit. plz don't breed or vote.

@belland_dog8235

3 жыл бұрын

@@rRobertSmith mate, the fucking sun causes cancer. Stop being scared of fast internet speeds.

@Emppu_T.

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Simon dragging 5G conspiracy theorists absolutely made my day, and it's only 12:38 AM

@stephendoherty8291

2 жыл бұрын

Wait till our lizard rulers hear about you. The aliens living around us will be laughing themselves silly.

@rasputtinbarthalamue487

2 жыл бұрын

Omg! Fast storage, kill it! Do you think their ancestors tried to destroy the first filing cabinet

@DrewJersey2024

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤓

@jaxsonariel2151

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@phillipgage5975

2 жыл бұрын

@Jaxson Ariel instablaster :)

"Ugh, gluons. They stick to everything!" The guy who cleans LHC between experiments, allegedly.

'they are idiots ' man needs ot be times front page this year

Suggestion for a future video: Sydney Opera House. That project had a lot of drama with many books on the topic, and they innovated the use of advanced structural analysis in the design of the shells. Also, imho, it’s probably one of the most incredible structures in the world.

@davidhamilton2093

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't work too great though.

@Wild_Bill57

4 жыл бұрын

Been there, it’s a great story. Was on my bucket list and well worth the trip.

@DrJatzCrackers

4 жыл бұрын

The politics behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge construction is also an interesting read. Not sure if it make a great KZread video though...

@dannin1278

4 жыл бұрын

Have known people who've played there and they said it's actually a really bad place to play acoustically

@Quadrant14

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannin1278 WRONG , it may depend where you sat!!!

The engineering behind this is amazing. Imagine what else we could do if only we all worked together?

@FT4Freedom

3 жыл бұрын

We'd be the masters of the universe.

@mastershooter64

2 жыл бұрын

@@FT4Freedom But we're too busy fighting with each other over dumb shit lmao

3:14 : Fourthly, it reduces the number of particles from cosmic rays being picked up by our detectors and interfering with measurements.

As a theoretical physicist who is actually into this field, while some explanations and phrasing is a bit hazy, hats of to Simon for the effort for trying. And assuming he is not actually a physicist, I applaud you for the effort! It might be hard for physicists to deal with, but getting this topic properly translated to everyday language takes effort!

"They're idiots!" Truth, complete truth.

@Varangian_af_Scaniae

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@sleepylion9511

4 жыл бұрын

@@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)

@emlyndewar

4 жыл бұрын

Varangian af Scaniae At least you accept the fact.

@Katniss218

4 жыл бұрын

@@Varangian_af_Scaniae That's the thing. The 5G antennas are not dangerous. You'd get more harm from the sun than these antennas

@sleepylion9511

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

Request: The ITER ( International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France. Alongside with nuclear fusion.

@rubenbraekman4515

3 жыл бұрын

Boy that would be a great video if it actually worked

@viktor19842005

3 жыл бұрын

i was about to write that;D

Making these amazing discoveries for future generations reminds me of: “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” - Nelson Henderson

@ialrakis5173

Жыл бұрын

yep, the wereld needs a lot more of this way of thinking.It’s not about 1 person/race/continent, it’s about the human race.

Request: The Berlin Airport...The project is so 'overwhelming', it will never be finished.

@BIGJATPSU

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully this November, FINALLY got it's license last month. Maybe a video on Tempelhof Airport, was way ahead of it's time.

@Lolfire

4 жыл бұрын

He did that one over on his best channel, Business Blaze. SMASH that subscribe button.

@Sol-mr1lv

4 жыл бұрын

I think Simon already did that one, but it might have been on Business Blaze

@otakuman706

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lolfire Exactamundo. What I came in to say. Alegendly.....

@TonyDootjes

4 жыл бұрын

Same here @ schiphol, a never ending project lol

Your channels, specifically this one and Business Blaze are my favorite of yours. They entertain me greatly.

@peten2956

4 жыл бұрын

I second this sentiment exactly!

@kingscrub3386

4 жыл бұрын

@Meyaka Brown i like that one too but like the Simon who bashes idiots without remorse.

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that :)

@kingscrub3386

4 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 thank you for the seemingly unlimited entertainment.

@StallionStudios1234

3 жыл бұрын

I like this one as well as geographics and biographics

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

This is the best LHC explanatory video I have ever come across since I was born. Excellent work!

Two mega projects I would like to see on this show: ITER fusion reactor, and the NIF with it's glorious 192 lasers

@AvoidTheCadaver

4 жыл бұрын

Oh hell yes the NIF

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Anything with 192 lasers is glorious.

@AvoidTheCadaver

4 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 Technically it's just 1 laser just that the single beam is amplified then split into 192 beams. But it can cause nuclear fusion and that is awesome

@themajor743

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. ITER please. Huge, expensive, powerful. It's got all of the superlatives. It's also a massive international collaboration drawing together the worlds scientific base in a single goal of proving out the concept of nuclear fusion as an engineering achievement in the form of a real live power reactor.

@vgames1543

3 жыл бұрын

What is the NIF? Is this the fusion reactor project by General Fusion?

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.

@dongiovanni4331

4 жыл бұрын

Bletchley park, Oak Ridge and other national labs are interesting places too.

@Kabodanki

4 жыл бұрын

Elon musk cat girl factory

@AvoidTheCadaver

4 жыл бұрын

Baikonur was covered on Geographics

@Taygetea

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kabodanki that's probably in Boca Chica along with Starship ;)

@henk-3098

4 жыл бұрын

Super-Kamiokande

Four areas of collision called "crossing points." Simon Whistler "Don't cross the streams!" Igor Venkman

@suesutherland9782

3 жыл бұрын

Igon said it not venkman. Lol

@robertrabinoff6181

3 жыл бұрын

@@suesutherland9782 True story. When my oldest son was about 5 we came home from a family picnic and we both had to run. No problem, we could both stand there and the bowl is big and wide. After the initial relief, little Joseph began to cross his stream with mine, splattering pee all over. I yelled at him, "Joseph, don't cross the streams!" Then it dawned on me what I had just said... And where they got that line from. BTW, the opening scene is at Columbia University, my Alma Mater. "An Episcopal institution where atheists teach Jews about St. Thomas."

CERN: ARE YOU DOWN WITH LHC! Simon: (hands in the air) YA YOU KNOW ME!!!!

*LHC makes discovery about the atom* Public: meh *LHC discovers about Dark Matter* Public: meh *LHC creates portal to new dimension* Public: OMG does it take us to [insert TV Show/Movie/Anime]!?

@mikeyoung9810

4 жыл бұрын

If we just did what the masses are concerned with, sex, power, food, we'd still be roaming the planet in small hunter gatherer groups till asteroid impact (or something as bad) happened and extincted us. With scientific advancement we might be about to save the world while making life more liveable in the process. (we could also end ourselves). For me, I like to dream and imagine.

@pouncepounce7417

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeyoung9810 Too many people agree but only if it costs them nothing.

@mobiuscoreindustries

3 жыл бұрын

Thats the work of enginieers, scientists, inovators and actual investors: to drag the world into a future they want but actively opose, kicking and screaming allong the way. Honestly, it has become harder and harder as time goes on. We have to deal with greedy politics, sheep management, short sellers, karens, climate wariors, a stealing totalitarian fucking regime, outdated buisnesses holding monopolies in vast swaves of the industry, ridiculous laws that needed change 80 years ago, and a public whoom's first source of information is either TV medias or drama fueled quick view articles. Honestly, at this point i'd rather build an army of AI controled general purpose robots to forcefully do what needs to be done rather than try to convince ONE retard away from their outdated and unfounded views

0:20 Thank you Simon, Thank you

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 !!

Im grateful and feeling humble to be alive during this age of discovery where can build things like the LHC. Im horrible math and not particularly good at the raw, theoretical part of science, but overall I consider myself very scientifically literate, well read, and passionate about the things that other minds, more calculating and logical than my own, are able to discover and thus share with the rest if humanity. I wish everyone took more interest in such things as particle physics. Its like magic coming to terms with the processes that rule and create ‘reality’, at least how we currently understand it. Just amazing! Great video as usual

Resubmiting the man made islands in the South China sea and off the coast of Dubai. Solid channel with just enough of a touch of the Blaze

@scottadkin541

4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you brother. But I also don't want Simon to die randomly or get threatened from CPC hardliners that think he is causing them to lose face to the rest of the world.

"Smash that like button, by loading two like buttons into a tube, accelerating them to near-light speed ..."

@Skraeling1000

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@navret1707

4 жыл бұрын

Skraeling1000 - 👏 👍

@lonzofficial9456

3 жыл бұрын

"and they're just making this shit in switzerland."

@ladyalibat6564

3 жыл бұрын

Another fan of MrBallen?

@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.

3 жыл бұрын

@@ladyalibat6564 I'm familiar with his work but this comment predates me finding MrBallen's channel.

I wish I saw this video when I was 5, so that I could’ve studied so much physics I could actually understand it, and work on this project 😂

@tyecollaborator5017

3 жыл бұрын

But then if you studied then you wouldn't have done it.

@charlescooley4130

3 жыл бұрын

I wish you couldve understood this video at the age of 5

@kevinfreeman3098

3 жыл бұрын

Even these super technical projects need someone to sweep the floor... Think outside the box, it gets a foot in the door.

@dankthegank4315

3 жыл бұрын

Or grammar, so we don’t have to read your comment multiple times to understand it...

@Ryan-lk4pu

3 жыл бұрын

Never too late. I'm 38 and studying a level physics now. Want to do a degree next year.

I love it when journalists/media-figures actually call idiots, idiots. We need more of that.

@HDMediaUK

3 жыл бұрын

The issue is most media figures and journalists arn't much better themselves.

Whats the meaning of life? 42 Simon, its 42.

@ChristophersMum

4 жыл бұрын

Ah so!!...you've read ''The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Universe'' Too...

@davidmartensson273

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristophersMum I would doubt there are to many here who has not ;)

@james.w.

4 жыл бұрын

I came here to post that exact same answer.

@Texassince1836

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristophersMum *Galaxy

@Texassince1836

4 жыл бұрын

@@james.w. the improbability drive dropped you off here too?

Looking forward to the comments section. Especially those who keep saying science has proved nothing - over WiFi on their mobile phone or tablet..

@MyMarsham

4 жыл бұрын

I’m watching this on a typewriter because the Wifi carries coronavirus! And anyway, the earth is a square!

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

@@MyMarsham Smart

@rockhound3.14

4 жыл бұрын

PEANUT BUTTER!!!

@brapamaldi7666

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, wifi running at the same frequency as.... 5g :O

@matonmongo

4 жыл бұрын

@@brapamaldi7666 Hey, back in the day, sonny, I remember when it was still dial-up! ;-p

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the desertron[1]) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas. Its planned ring circumference was 87.1 kilometers (54.1 mi) with an energy of 20 TeV per proton and was set to be the world's largest and most energetic. The project's director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Louis Ianniello served as its first Project Director for 15 months.[2] After 22.5 km (14 mi) of tunnel were bored and nearly two billion dollars were spent, the project was cancelled in 1993 due to budget problems.[3]

this was incredible. I'm blown away by how it actually looks like parts of a reactor in the starship enterprise.

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. 😅😅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@wardaddyindustries4348

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny Cash comes to mind.

@markkarasik2211

4 жыл бұрын

😎so you’re saying it’s too hot to microwave a burrito?

@Chino56751

4 жыл бұрын

Dubai at the height of summer.

@kryptyk3

4 жыл бұрын

South Florida on August! The humidity is horrible..

@pilotavery

4 жыл бұрын

@@markkarasik2211 Nah just put the burrito on your porch and it will burn outside and stay frozen inside.

32 seconds in and Simons already said they were idiots and smash that dislike button go this one's going to be great

@AnthonyTrudeau

4 жыл бұрын

But, but, *tHe TOwErS*

@Schizz_Popinov

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyTrudeau Allegedly

@ryanking2892

4 жыл бұрын

Schizz Popinov Has POP Poop l PYeap

@norgepalm7315

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanking2892 what

@kindlin

4 жыл бұрын

You should see Business Blaze..

Great, easy to follow video about one of the (if not THE one) most complicated machine and topic out there. Its very imformative yet very well written and presented. Thank you for this effort!

I love it that the human race is still able to set aside differences and come together for projects like this. With the most important discoveries coming from this collider, either not being known at this point in time or not expected to happenilr for centuries, we are still willing to dump massive amounts of time and resources towards a goal in the unknown. I think that’s pretty cool. Politicians only see cost in something like this but I see potential and I think the world could use more people like that.

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.

@pouncepounce7417

4 жыл бұрын

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"

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..

@sailinbob11

4 жыл бұрын

I'm on my phone, so I really gotta line it up.

@hkbabel

4 жыл бұрын

@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 .... :-)

@paulheslin4299

4 жыл бұрын

its okay for me, i already tippexed over it...

@way2crazie620

4 жыл бұрын

We are all missing the whole point and that is that we as bystanders can only be able to bring some Reeeeeeeeeeeeee more

@codyblea3638

4 жыл бұрын

I like to think they hold their thumb over the dislike button. And slam it down with a blow from a 10 lb sledgehammer.

Nice, Simon. I never realized the LHC was an on-going facility that operates for a time and shuts down and then needs upgrades to do more. I had wondered how long it was good for and could it be upgraded. You answered that. Thanks!

Masterpiece Simon. Keep up the good work

Next video could be Fusion reactor ITER. tokamak reactor beeing built in france. :) great videos thank you

@skizzik121

4 жыл бұрын

The issuea are 1 it's still being built 2 we dont know if it will work 3 fusion is 20 years away

I imagine archeologists finding the LHC thousands of years from now and saying something like: "It was a religious building that represented circle of life, the cycle of life and death..." or some fecundity ritual stuff.

@Sciguy95

3 жыл бұрын

That does bug me a little, how every single time a discovery is made that we can't understand the purpose of its immediately assumed to be religious in nature.

@registheron9752

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sciguy95 in fairness a lot of ancient sites were for religious purposes.

@Sciguy95

3 жыл бұрын

@@registheron9752 if its confirmed fine, but they need to stop declaring that something is religious when they really have no idea what it was for.

@registheron9752

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sciguy95 given how most large structures was for religion its not out of the realm of possibility.

@Sciguy95

3 жыл бұрын

@@registheron9752 who said it was? But like I said, until it can actually be confirmed they shouldn't declare thats what it was. Besides I'm not just talking about huge structures they find smaller things too that get declared as "religious" just because they don't know what it is. The fact is that no matter what your argument is, the correct answer in a situation that you can't confirm what it is, is "I don't know."

Excellent and accessible reporting of a complex subject. Well done.

Did anyone else hear Powerman 5000 in their head, every time Simon says, “collide” ? 😂

Suggestions: Interstate system/Autobahn, Hubble telescope, edit + Saturn V

@josh_1518

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@gregwessendorf

3 жыл бұрын

Those are some brilliant suggestions. US interstate system was nuts if only for the speed of it's construction. Saturn V was basically a 32 story building that moves vertically. Hubble changed astronomy in possibly the biggest way since Galleleio.

Hubble space telescope would be an amazing video!

Flashbacks to high school physic classes. 😳 Thank you, Simon&Team

That's one powerful beamer, more so than an M8

6.5 TeV is 10^-6 Joules, equal to the kinetic energy of 1 gramm moving at the speed of 5 cm/s. 6.5 TeV is huge energy for a particle, but a pretty small one in big world.

@bassett_green

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely got a laugh out of the idea that it was unimaginable levels of energy. It's about the same energy as a fingernail clipping hitting the floor

@user-te7rf8ik7z

4 жыл бұрын

@@bassett_green And I think that you undedestimate the ULTIMATE energy of your fingernail)

@oberonoberon9288

4 жыл бұрын

In the talk i heard it contained the joke: "Let houseflies collide and discover new particles from time to time." PS: I liked it more when they "came up with te acronym before the name" e,g: H-E.R.A. (Prety sure that one is also mostly a Joke, but science has some wired acronyms.)

@eeHMFIC

4 жыл бұрын

@@bassett_green also keep in mind that that there are several trillion atoms in that fingernail clipping that all share that 6TeV, compared to each proton having that energy in the LHC. To further boggle the mind, the rest energy of that fingernail is about 18 GJ, equal to about 1000 Kg of tnt. Physics is nuts

@user-te7rf8ik7z

4 жыл бұрын

@@eeHMFIC And if each atom in the fingernail had an energy of 6.5 TeV, energy of the fingernail would be: 1*Na/12=5*10^22 - amount of atoms in the fingernail 5*10^22*6.5 TeV=5*10^16 J=50 PJ of enefgy, aka 12 Gigatons of TNT, or 44 minutes of all world power production.

Just for the first 25 seconds you get a like from me!

@todddougherty9492

4 жыл бұрын

Smash that Dislike button. He prefers it. Really. Lol

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

@@todddougherty9492 You know it.

@danraahauge3777

4 жыл бұрын

Should be a Civ6 wonder XD

@YeeSoest

4 жыл бұрын

You should really join BusinessBlaze then if you haven't ^^

Alice is mind blowing . Thanks for this video, I like the way you talk because it is clear to normal people .

At 4:06, Simon Whistler talks about the LHC breaking the world record for beam collisions, reaching energies of 3.5 TeV per beam or 7.0 TeV total. He implied that was a huge amout of energy. I don't want to denigrate the LHC; I admire the LHC, the people who work there and the work that they do. However, let's just look at a few numbers. In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV, also written electron-volt and electron volt) is the amount of kinetic energy gained (or lost) by a single electron accelerating from rest through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum. When used as a unit of energy, the numerical value of 1 eV in joules (symbol J) is equivalent to the numerical value of the charge of an electron in coulombs (symbol C). Under the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units, this sets 1 eV equal to [see below] . . . 1 eV = 1.60219E-19 J 1 TeV = 1.60219E-07 J 1 teraelectronvolt equals 1 trillion electronvolts. 7 TeV = 1.12153E-06 J Some Energy Events for Comparison . . . 3.00E-15 J = average kinetic energy of one human red blood cell 1.60E-07 J = about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito 1.04E-06 J = energy per proton in the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015 (6.5 TeV) 1.10E-01 J = energy of an American half-dollar falling 1 meter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt www.rapidtables.com/convert/energy/ev-to-joule.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)

The ultimate Megaproject: The Death Star.

@113dmg9

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the Death Star got blown up. Are my facts inaccurate?

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Dwarfed by the Dyson sphere ;)

@Skraeling1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 But less death dealing weaponry.

@ajinkya_p

3 жыл бұрын

Ringworlds or matrioshka brain

@Emppu_T.

3 жыл бұрын

So there's this Megastructure in this manga called Blame!, i think it was like a cube made by rampant construction ai over a vast amount of time, it's bigger than earth. (Said to have started there, reaching to about Jupiter.)

I had to laugh at the people who said this thing was going to open a door to hell. It was almost as funny as the one about Black Friday being a holiday for buying slaves.

It's my boi Simon without the Blaze

Cooperación, ciencia y una puerta al futuro. Simplemente manífico.

Not half a minute in, and I want to give this man a hug.

@jackslagle2019

4 жыл бұрын

I would as well but the guilt I am feeling from lighting those fires is terrible.

@jamesrobinson4042

4 жыл бұрын

Literally right from the get go we all knew this would be a great video 😂

@Texassince1836

4 жыл бұрын

You gotta SMASH that dislike button first, its the law

@jamesrobinson4042

4 жыл бұрын

@@Texassince1836 had to do it but disliked then immediately liked 😂

@Nawabid

4 жыл бұрын

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.....

Particle physics gives me a Hadron

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.

@willynebula6193

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the channel Business blaze if you like his humor. I will say tho start watching all the older videos first.

Interesting info...tks. 😎

"They are idiots!", I like that.

You had me at: “they are idiots”

"They burn 5G towers because they are idiots"🤣👍

@theColinamanda

3 жыл бұрын

Qn m no kw I m

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?

make a vid about ITER

Man, if the LHC cost $7B, I'm looking forwards to the bells and whistles that they must be adding to HS2 for £50B...

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

The trains travel at close to the speed of light. But unfortunately just go round in circles.

@Obiwandandobi

4 жыл бұрын

Sums Britain up quite well...

@dhotnessmcawesome9747

4 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@qewqeqeqwew3977

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Patel-Chirag-Gupta

2 жыл бұрын

@@qewqeqeqwew3977 yet wars are going on for what?

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.

Everything about this LHC is all mind-blowing 🤯

Bruhhhhhh !!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ finally... ✨✨ Love you and your channel... Next please do a video on ITER Tokamak and Travelling Wave Reactor (A conceptual nuclear fission reactor which is under research stage)

4:39 "second-long shutdown and is scheduled to be back online in 2021" - that is indeed a long second. BADA-BUM-TSHHHHH

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

TSHSHHSHSHS

@Skraeling1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 My bacon, it fries.

@rabbi120348

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@cheaterman49

3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@rabbi120348

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheaterman49 It actually mostly distinguishes dialects, as in "put the emphásis on the wrong sylláble" in the Islands mon.

A student of mine, when I was teaching a certification class at Yale, worked at CERN for 2 years. Only person, in the many training seminars I led, that achieved 100% on both exams at the end. He was way smarter than I lol

These numbers are mind bending. Cannot comprehend - does not compute..

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.

@fartvader84yearsago8

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, KZread 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.

I read that as "large hardon collider" for years.

@seanbrazell6147

4 жыл бұрын

And was thus inspired to become a physicist leading to an inevitable but entirely aboveground collision with disappointment? 😉

@peterbustin2683

4 жыл бұрын

Thats very gay....

@seanbrazell6147

4 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@macgeek2004

4 жыл бұрын

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

@michalkluka6527

4 жыл бұрын

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. :)

Building that thing was the most purely human thing we’ve done.

Oh well, thanks to the LHC project, the internet was born... They wanted all top professors from around the world to be on site and to collaborate, but lots of them were not willing to quit their jobs , or leave their families. Though all of them did wanted to examine the data provided by the experiments, which lead to the thought of sending data from machine (PC) to machine (PC) using landlines. And the rest is history. Google, Amazon, Uber smart phones, NetFlix, E-mail.. You name it: thanks LHC!

Please do an entry on ITER (fusion reactor)

I was really hoping for more about the actual construction of the facility.

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.

This is unbelievably fascinating. Thanks allot Simon for sending me down the LHC rabbit hole!

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!

@larryscott3982

4 жыл бұрын

“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.)

@QBCPerdition

4 жыл бұрын

Kelvin is the same as Celsius you just need to add or subtract 273.15 depending on which direction you're converting

@larryscott3982

4 жыл бұрын

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 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.

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!

Very Nice. I studied Quantum Physics about 25 years ago. Glad to see we're making progress.

So, we're way above 1.21 gigawatts. I demand a flux compasitor.

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

Magnificent. Thank you!

Absolutely amazing. I love hearing those astronomically high figures and features, it always helps put the true scale of the LHC into perspective. Interest in the LHC and it’s findings should be a litmus test for all higher societal functions & duties. 😁👍👍

"They are idiots" Love it! 😂

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.

I've been waiting for this one, I knew it had to be coming.

Building the Alice detector was a great achievement but transporting it across the Pacific with a blimp would be AMAAAAAAAAZZZZZIIIIINNNNNGGGG!!!

Waiting for that business blaze “allegedly” to leak over into one of the other channels after the “smash that dislike button” 😂

Requested this a few vids ago. Looks like they were already on it.

@megaprojects9649

4 жыл бұрын

Yep :).

Simon part historian part comedian lol made me crack up a few times 🤣🤣

Another great video thanks 👏🏻. People seem to forget they aren’t paying for this educational and entertaining content.. scrutinising it more than I’m sure they do anything else.

If i am not totally wrong they are using already a lot of tech that was developed for CERN to run it in other things, the magnet technology to focus the beams for example, a lot of computer programs developed for CERN (filtering out impotant Data form large ammounts of |trash| Data, server technology to store and move a lot of data, cryo technology, all stuff that was developed using the funding for CERN and then used for other "real live" things.

"Thought to be the densest matter in our universe." They haven't met my wife.

@IshijimaKairo

3 жыл бұрын

F

@jonathans.972

3 жыл бұрын

How would your wife feel about that statement? Why are you married?

@DownloadeousMaximus

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathans.972 It was a joke. How do you feel about not having a sense of humor?

@jonathans.972

3 жыл бұрын

@@DownloadeousMaximus lol. Honestly, I don't feel very good. My bad. Apologies.

@DownloadeousMaximus

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathans.972 Fair enough.

Per se the cooling is not really used to 'cool' the temperature of the beam, but to create the magnetic fields needed

An excellent presentation, as usual, Mr. Whistler! In the future, how about considering what it would take to build a so-called "space elevator"?. Or maybe a SSTO/HOTOL (single stage to orbit horizontal takeoff and landing) spaceship?