Speaker: Dr Melissa Uchida, Imper­ial Col­lege, London
Title: Liquid Hydro­gen, 50,000 tonnes of water and a Nuc­lear reactor:
A Particle Phys­i­cists’ Jour­ney to Under­stand the Universe
Whilst we know that 68% of the uni­verse is dark energy and 27% is dark mat­ter, we have only hints as to their nature. The mat­ter dom­in­ated uni­verse of which we are a part makes up the remain­ing 5% but even here there are many out­stand­ing ques­tions, such as how does it come to exist in the first place?
To under­stand these ques­tions particle phys­i­cists work as a global com­munity, invent­ing new tech­no­lo­gies with bene­fits that reach far bey­ond the pur­suit of knowledge.
this talk gives a brief his­tory of particle phys­ics and describe one physicist's work in the hunt for answers.
Many thanks to the Institute of Physics, University of Sussex, for allowing us to record and share this lecture.