Young works as a physicist for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), but has recently c ollaborated with the organization that runs the LHC. Young gave out various homework assignments to the audience, urging them to study not just the properties of thermochemical calories, but also the history of Nagasaki. One of the highly improbable side effects of using the LHC is the creation of a miniature black hole.īut the lecture wasn’t all fun and games. Antimatter was also the subject of a recent controversy regarding the safety of the LHC. The explosive properties of antimatter, which the LHC creates in very small quantities, were thrilling enough for Dan Brown to describe in his best-seller "Angels and Demons," that journeys with Robert Langdon, a fictional Harvard symbologist who uncovers a secret society and their plot to destroy Vatican City using destructive antimatter. The size of the LHC alone is staggering: as long as a football field, weighs 2000 tons and gathers 64 terabytes of data-per second.Įqually striking are the uses to which it’s put. Leptons, antimatter, and all sorts of so-called exotic particles.
The LHC is used to observe collisions between protons, which may then produce quarks, Young began the night describing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the magnetic ring mentioned above. The presentation mixed equal parts humor and wonder to give an insider’s glimpse at the world of theoretical physics. Charles Young walked straight out of a Dan Brown novel to give a presentation on the science behind "Angels and Demons". Theoretical physicist lectures at MV auditorium on the science behind "Angels and Demons"ĭeep under the city of Geneva, Switzerland, a giant magnetic ring accelerates subatomic particles to incredible speeds- a multi-billion dollar mad scientist lab formed for the exploration of one thing: antimatter.
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