Particle physics made easy - with Pauline Gagnon
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Published 2022-12-23
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Could we be at the dawn of a huge revolution in our conception of the material world that surrounds us?
The creativity, diversity and motivation of thousands of scientists have gone into CERN, and ensured the success of one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. It has led to scientists being able to describe the smallest constituents of matter, and the role of the Higgs boson. This talk explores the world of particle physics, spanning the infinitesimally small to the infinitely large.
This talk was recorded at the Ri on 26 September 2022.
Pauline Gagnon first studied at San Francisco State University then completed a PhD in particle physics at University of California in Santa Cruz. Pauline then started research activities at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics located near Geneva, where Pauline worked as a Senior Research Scientist with Indiana University until retirement in 2016.
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All Comments (21)
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It's such a privilege and empowering gift when you're understanding what you're learning as you learn it, simply by focusing on a passionate teacher with the gift of speaking in appropriate relation to student level knowledge
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After years and years of watching lectures on particle physics, I must say this is excellent. She is so clear and precise in her choice of words.
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I had the disjointed vocabulary stored away in my brain, but now the words have all been eloquently knitted together to form sentences that I can finally begin to comprehend. Excellent!😊
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That bit about spectroscopic x-ray is very exciting. The whole lecture was superb.
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What a great lecture from a passionate speaker. I wish Pauline was my Physics teacher many years ago. My job may have taken a different path and I may have been immersed in Physics by now.
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I offer my comment after watching the video for one time. The subject is excellently explained in understandable language that any layman in science like me can understand. Of course I shall watch it again and again to understand it fully. Thank you all, very much. Note, I hail from India.
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The lil one an i jus finished watching this, she's 8. After she got done asking questions about her accent and got used to it....she, along with me were glued to our TV. An absolutely phenomenal presentation! We both learned a lot today !
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Really cool the way she interacts with audience and very pleasant to hear her talking. what a good example "ripples on the water tank, can you see the water?" Thanks for sharing.
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Very captivating lecture. I thought I knew something something about particle physics. Not so fast, until I come to this one. Not that I changed anything that I knew but now they make more sense. Thanks RI and Dr. Gagnon and keep up the good work. From Hker worldwide
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A brilliant lecture on Particle Physics. To say Brilliant... is an understatement!
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This was one of the best lectures I've watched.
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What a brilliant communicator
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Fantastic lecture - thankyou RI and Dr Gagnon.
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Excellent explanation..very informative..great God bless you all..love 💖 and respect 🙏.
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Please could you do a presentation on low frequency noise and vibrating effects on human body. Love your presentation.
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Marvelous presentation, marvelous woman. Wonderful scientist and good fun attitude!
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Thank you madam, you are a wonderful teacher.
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Thank you for content like this and at length.
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Now if only she talked about the guy that put his head into a particle accelerator, they use such small masses but it still caused damage, just a few atoms moving at that speed is incredible
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Very nice explanation thank you 👍👍👍.
