Beyond the Higgs: What's Next for the LHC? - with Harry Cliff
In 2012, the announcement of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. But what has been going on at the Large Hadron Collider since? Physicist Harry Cliff will be your guide. Want an update on this video? Watch this next: • Upgrading the Particle...
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What is the future of the world’s biggest physics experiment? And what intriguing hints of new physics are around the corner?
Harry Cliff is the Science Museum Fellow of Modern Science, which he reckons might be the only job title which begins and ends with 'science'. He spends half his time searching for signs of new physics at LHCb, one of the four big experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. For the other half, he indulges his love of talking about physics at the Science Museum, where he develop exhibitions, events and online content.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 31 October 2017.
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Harry Cliff is one of those physicists who explain the most complex topics of physics in a brilliantly simple way ......just loved his presentation
Thank you Royal Institution for making this available freely. Such an engaging and informative lecture. Harry Cliff's enthusiasm is simply contagious. Explained in a simple and easy to understand manner.
Also Royal Institute please bring in people who are not comatose as audience participants. I felt for your intelligent speaker. His subtle humor was missed by this audience along with most of what this clear speaking presenter said. If he got a stipend I hope it had a rider for "combat pay", how many almost deceased people can you be forced to entertain?
@@tomaims true, maybe next time you should go and attend if you can and maybe once if it possible for me to attend one of The Royal Institution's talk I will go and attend
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3 mln views. Tens of stadiums
This was a very interesting explanation of what the Standard Model is about -- such a clear explanation of fields that make particles possible and what an atom consists of.
Probably the best lecture on particle physics I've ever seen. Great presenter and very clearly thought out description for what are the greatest mysteries of the universe - no small feat!
Beautifuly elegant talk. Harry Cliff takes us from the beginnings of quantenphsyics right to the front of research today. 100 years of physics which is sadly hardly known by the general population. I hope this man will give more lectures in the future!
I also liked the lecture but you're a bit misguided if you think he covered the base of quantum physics at all. I'd suggest you read a textbook or watch some university issued talks on the subject.
@@QuasiELVIS You seem so confident in your knowledge, what is your background? Yes, I am skeptical about you.
@@alexv5581 I have a university bachelor of science degree.
People are still stuck in their Goofy religious beliefs, refusing to accept the fact of evolution and whatnot.. pathetic
@@alexv5581 I agree with Elvis ... I only have a high I.Q to rely on as I am currently studying quantum physics. ... However. I only partly agree. As the talk is about quantum physics essentially, although the lecture is not about the interaction of atoms/protons which quantum physics addresses rather more , a layman's eyeview of quantum physics.
Harry Cliff did a fantastic job preparing and giving this lecture. You don't need any prior knowledge of the area to be able to understand it. By the end, he cautiously tells us about a new and profound discovery that will truly reveal itself in the next year or two. I CAN"T WAIT!
If a leptoquark is found, that would be very very significant, maybe even more than the Higgs. But preliminary estimates/calculations put the energies needed at way above what the LHC can now produce, and an upgrade is not planned until mid 2030's.
Agree, nice and informative lecture by a very eloquent speaker
Marc Marc It'll still take at least some decades before we can get any practical use out of it. Unless you're a superhero, then you have 1 of these things generating near-infinite energy to power your base and suits.
I like antimater idea the most. If it could be created, immagine what awsome weapon it would make. Antimater bomb would be spectacular sight to behold indeed. But if they realy discover the secrets of dark energy in the future, I think the power it could yield would be even more astonishing. Maybe enough to destroy the star itself!
B Antimater can and have been created, the issue is to store antimater.
Five star presentation Mr. Cliff.
24:42 is when it hit me. This universe we live in is amazing
One of the best presentations with a fabulous rhythm and content in front of a dead or disinterested audience with zero sense of humour!
Exactly what i was thinking. I thought his gags were suitably funny for at least a guffaw.
@@muldermachines Perhaps the audience reactions weren't picked up by the mic(s).
The reason; far too many topics, talked about far too long.
@@hairybear7705 Shouldn't people be able to handle a one hour long talk?
cell phones enable this generation's already notoriously short attention spans. You can bet that a large segment of the audience had their noses in their phones with thumbs all a twiddle...
Live particle decay performance by lady on first row from 05:00 to 59:44
More like attention decay.
As long as she did not snore, it's perfectly okay.
Thats his wife. Shes heard it all before.
15:40 is my favorite
Lol I was hoping that other people noticed this
I’ve been interested in the Quantum physics for years, but I learnt some really basic things about the Standard Model I didn’t know. His coverage of things to be investigated was also inspiring. Very well done.
I'm here because of the recent results from the Fermilab's muon g-2 experiment which is another strong evidence that we miss something from the standard model as Harry Cliff hinted at the end of this video.
This is by far the best single explanation of recent advances in physics I've seen.
agree!
totally agree!
I agree. Except he doesn't address the title of the video. He spends the first 45 minutes of this video talking about history and explaining the Higgs Boson but not what they're doing now. After all, the title of the video is "What's next for the LHC?". You don't find out until the very end of the video. It's a shame, but it's clickbait.
Naaaah.....ummmm... I've coughed-up more sustainable arguments.
@@dmc2554 Yeah, sure you have...🙄 😂😂😂
Harry is fantastic in explaining complex things, good job. Really like his style, fast and rich of content and in a constant flow, and 0% bullshit. thanks harry for that fantastic updated talk about mighty LHC. I have my fingers crossed for next big breaking.
We should have been wiped out ...according to the theory !! What!!! 95% of what makes the world is unknown !!!! What??!! Dark matter, dark energy.... !!! Interesting!!!!
You b-e-l-i-e-v-e all that guff? Why?
I loved Harry's little jokes-- they made me chuckle, because he enjoyed them so much.
Harry Cliff and David Tong do a Great Service to Physics Education. Wish I had teachers like you both. Thanks, Harry for your time and effort.
36:45 This guy gets such an amazing spark in his eyes when he talks about this stuff and no one seems to react in the room. If I was there, I'd get up and give him a hug. Physics is so awesome it makes me cry. 😪
Aditya Singhal omg same!
Haha it makes me wanna make out with him!
@@missymarie1637 BEGONE
More Harry Cliff in the future please. Best explanation so far...
The simplicity of explanation made this complex topic understood, thanks Harry Cliff. Searching for more topics from your end.
This guy is on fire. What an entertaining speaker.
I have to agree👍🤙🎙This guy is a Cosmological heavy weight👍🐋.Who to me has a very detailed understanding of his field of specialty! Partical physics. And is willing to expound upon it with a type of 💫🕵📌📌points accuracy. For those of us who are really trying to absorb and understand!👏👍
Keep up the good 👷 work Harry 👏👍🤞 it is Human beings like yourself ! That are propel-omg3 the Human species Ahead?🤞👏👍👀Some of us are 👀 and 👂you!
That's what I love about science, whenever you think "Heureka! We got it!" it turns out: "Well, but there is more, much more to discover and to understand."
eXtremeDR I think we will never understand. It will be layer. Then another layer. And so on. Infinity. Welcome to the universe.
Yes, I agree with you, but I like the idea that they admit they are never going to get it completely right. As they find out more, they try to adjust their theories. And they are theories, not fact, and always say so, unlike those who insist their way is right, perfect and cannot be altered or improved on, like religion, or the political dogma of an intolerant tyrant. But I do wonder if they ever admit that it might be better to start from scratch, rather than pile more on top an already top heavy theory.
@Hari Veturi I agree, but that is more of an excuse rather than good science. But I completely sympathise with whoever tries to untangle the huge vat of spaghetti that is the end result of what started out as a neat packet of pasta. This is a simile, or metaphor, not sure which! As an aside, why is there an H and more than one T in spagetti? What law decided that is the correct way to spell it ? Lol.
Best lecture I’ve ever seen on particle physics .... big up
This guy was so interesting to listen to. I really wanted to know these latest concepts of particle physics and he explained it very simply and clearly for me. One thing I liked was the dates of knowledge. I had no idea we new about antimatter so long ago.
Best presentation on particle physics, had heard so far
Wow, this was mind-blowing! I almost understood everything, I hope. I am very far from physics :) Thank you for explaining it the way I could understand. Harry is fantastic, hope to hear more of his lectures!
Absolutely brilliant lecture. The breakdown and explanation provided here makes one of the most complex subjects ever studied, palatable & surprisingly understandable. I have & will continue to follow along with the progression of your teams work and I greatly appreciate the time you all put into the monumentally important work ur conducting.
The exciting takeaway is the quality of this man's intellect. To have achieved such a high and depth of knowledge, with such clarity and modesty is so stimulating and inspiring. His casual dress is a bonus.
absolutely an excellent presentation, the people there were obviously in a different dimension, any attempt at humor was definitely lost on them. they either are pretending to already know this material or were forced to attend. I would have loved to have him speak at my class as he explained serious physics with outstanding clarity. Impressive young man, starts with the very basic and builds to todays latest discoveries and mysteries. I loved it!!!!
A difficult topic explained with such a clarity is really great . Harry Cliff is a genius
Boson is the name given after Indian scientist satyanendra bose
@@ranvir4641 Nobody asked
@@morganmitchell4017 Ok brother,Just fact.
There's something very clear, concise yet informative about this lecture. I particularly like the breakdown of the current understanding of the different particles etc. I note some decention in the comments of others. People should remember that this is free to view in the comfort of your own home! Many thanks RI.
Love these RI presentations! They are really enriching. I’m addicted!
When I started this video I didn't think I'd finish it, but it was so fascinating that...well, here I am at the end.
Superb presentation by Harry Cliff. He gives us clear explanations of various theories and takes us on a methodical step by step journey into the understanding of Quantum Physics - how it started and where are we today with our knowledge. Harry presents the unanswered questions and the unknown mysteries simultaneously. Thank you Harry.
One of the best and informative presentations I have ever seen. I congratulate Mr Harry Cliff for preparing and presenting this subject without a sip of water, and simplifying this extremely complicated subject so even I was able to partially comprehend the issue.
I appreciated the absence of condescension in the presence us little people!!
Fabulous presenter. I love it when really smart people can explain really complicated laws so non-physicists like me can grasp them, but also acknowledge the limits of our understanding so I can trust them.
I am amazed how fast you talk and how well I hear you despite my being hard of hearing and English being my second language.
Elocution my dear Claudio, elocution.
Great lecture. Whenever I see these talks at The Royal Institute I am always amazed that Micheal Faraday gave his lectures at the very same desk in this room. This lecture and others really brings the realization that regarding the space we are living in; we are basically running blind. We are only seeing the most minute portion of what might actually be here in this space.
Really, you're _always_ amazed? When do you think you'll finally conquer your incredulity? :-/ 200 years isn't a very long time when you're talking about buildings. My mother's house was built before Faraday gave that lecture.
A really enjoyable lecture. Good content explained very clearly.
Hmm. What do with call you, Keylanos? Science denier? Reality denier? You can't win. The Standard Model is one of the crowning achievements of modern science. Pitting any theory you prefer against it would be like bringing a plastic spoon to a gun fight.
gespilk - Came back to edit my answer (which was wrong) after watching the Q&A (link in the description). Harry says that the mass of the Higgs boson also comes from the Higgs field. No doubt the longer answer was beyond the scope of his lecture!
I have a new hero. Harry Cliff. I learned a great deal from this lecture. Very interesting. He is a good lecturer and can move along even with a dead audience.
These lectures are a gift to the educated members of society. Totally ignored by the other 99 percent of the planet.
Amazing presentation. Just loved it. Give lots of information in an amazingly organized way with lots of humor. Learned lots of new staff about LHC. Thanks for uploading this video.
Harry Cliff does such an amazing job of explaining incredibly difficult physics, so thankful for his lecture.
Best ever scientific lecture for a complicated topic. Well done ladies and gentlemen
A brilliant and understandable explanation of particle physics and how the LHC is being used to increase our understanding of why there is anything at all!
You have the ability to reach out to us not so gifted in particle physics and wanting to hear more. I was mesmerized by your talk, totally engrossed by it, devoured a whole bowl of chips without realizing it as I listened to you. Normally I would have fallen asleep half way though this kind of presentation, you have a gift for speaking and keeping connected to the listener. Well done and thank you, enjoyed every moment. Even learned a thing or two lol.
Excellent, fascinating and highly accessible lecture. Dr. Cliff is to be commended for giving a truly excellent lecture.
Harry Cliff matches Brian Greene in his skill at explaining science with the added feature of presenting more words per second and the ability to share the excitement of his work with great visuals and gems of humor.
Such a great lecture. Superbly well explained (for a layman like me), really interesting, lively and most important of all: understandable! without dumbing it down.
Finally a you tube video about LHC that is not about opening portals to hell and demons
History
Yeah, also they haven't got any useful results... Like allways
and yet you couldn't be more wrong! lmao (just kidding)
The same ones that wanted to create a wormhole. On a small scale. Yet had no clue how it would behave? Not sure I would want to create small wormhole in a lab...Just to see what would happen. One reason most Physicist said hell no..
It’s not is it? Already loaded my bloody shotgun...
I understood it all up to just after “ Thanks Martin for the kind introduction “ lol
His humor' is unique... Piloting over most of the audience's heads with joke/humor....graduate physics humor... the audience was happy anyway, bliss.
Totally engaging and clear throughout. Brilliant lecturing style. Thanks
FANTASTIC LECTURE! Pretty complex and difficult concepts explained in a smooth and elegant way! Yay!
For the first time I see a lecture that is recent enough that the results aren't here yet, that's really exciting!
After carefuly watching the video from start to finish about 3 time I conclude with a fairly high degree of accuracy that he was speaking in English.
At a machine-gun rate of delivery.
Do you have statistical proof for that 🤔
You guys are hilarious
@@manpjal to within 5 sigma, of course.
As a physicist, this was the most intetesting and harminious presentation I have ever seen. I cannot understand why the lady at the background was falling asleep.
She might’ve had a long day
drug addict
Great lecture! Explained things so well even I could follow along. lol. Hope you give more talks like this as I learned quite a bit from it and would love to learn more. Thank you.
"When you hear the word Dark in physics what that really means is we don't know what we're talking about" ...this guy is totally awesome!
True: Dark Energy, Dark Mass = We don't know + We don't know.
They dealing with demonic stuff
Fairly easy for a layperson like me to uderstand, but fantastically fascinating, absorbing, and mind blowing! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
great presentation! he explained a few different things I've been wanting to better understand for a while now. I like the basic run down on how the LHC produces the media and experiment.
Extraordinarily well done! Explained extremely well!
As well as can be done by using words instead of number data. Good job.
This was the VERY best video on this topic (s) that I have ever seen. Great job Mr. Cliff!
This lecture has been truly enlightening as much it can be to a non physicist. This shall be my reference henceforth whenever i doubts, queries or need clarification. Thank you Dr Harry Cliff.
This was a spectacular presentation - the best I've seen about particle physics
I was looking for deeper explanation of modern physics for so long. Thank you for making this!
"Modern physics" left true physics over a 100 years ago.
What a mind boggling topic presented in a charming way by a equally charming intellectual. The general public couldn't get enough of it. Many Thanks from HK
Thank you for providing such awesome content. I really enjoyed the lecture.
Excellent presentation with clear explanation of complicated topic. Henry is great teacher.
If my lectures on basic school were as entertaining as this.. maybe I would have been scientist too.. Lovely.
If you needed to be entertained in order to become a physicist, you likely did not have the requisite interest in the subject. That especially holds true for the idea floating around in the 90's that we needed more young people going into science, so we ought to go round to schools, performing science experiments that created loud and impressive explosions to get young people interested in science, without asking whether if that's what it took to grab the attention of students, did they really have the mindset necessary to be a scientist. (Science is rarely, if ever, exciting in the student sense.)
Me too, perhaps a life wasted. Almost 80, so a little late but I have been trying to come to grips with it for several years. Still beyond me but absolutely fascinating.
Exactly what I was thinking..
Maby if your teacher had 20 hours time to prepare 5 minutes speech, it would have been that interesting ;)
If the entertainment value of lectures is your driving force in many years of university then you would never make it through.
Hi everyone, we just got English closed captions for this video, hope this makes it even easier to enjoy!
Yap, very entertaining.thanks.
maybe they can't figure out how to fit gravity into the equation because gravity doesn't exist
The Royal Institution 7
so super symmetry describes Matter as a proton, Antimatter as an electron and Dark Matter as a neutron.
Thank you very much for the CC.
What a well delivered an presented presentation of a very complex topic that's normaly tedious to get your head around .. well done 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
32:00 The most simple and concise explanation for more than 3 dimensions I've heard
Excellent Lecture. Highly informative. Riveting. TY for posting.
Tip: If you want to express gratitude take the time to write out "thank you" in full.
It's a continual source of frustration to me how there's no facility for showing on video what these people are highlighting with their laser pointers, I always feel that i'm missing out on an important point. can we have a bit of effort with the editing perhaps, a graphic maybe? Surely I'm not the only one!
Thank you for your honest feedback. We'll see if there is more that we can do during editing. Hope you enjoyed the talk otherwise.
And please, please - if the lecturer refers to the slide - please, point the camera to the presentation, so that we can follow the explanations with the picture in front of us. Because normally, if the lecturer points towards the slide and talks about it, standing 90° next to it in order to directly show parts on the slide, you would look up there. And if the camera doesn't point there, then it is a bit frustrating. In the Q&A to this video there was even a part (13:11) where you could see the lecturer with the laserpointer in the hand gesturing towards the presentation - that was not shown. That's really not optimal at all. Really, even afterwards you couldn't see the slide - probably the responsible person thought that everyone should still have the slide in memory. But the lecturer extra went back to that foil to show everyone - except us - on that slide his point. Really, you should improve that, that's really destructive to the lecture as a whole.
it probaby didnt matter because you can still see where his hand is pointing
It's called 'Obscuring the facts' which is as he keeps repeating, "They don't Know"..
go write apple, to make laser pointers that show up on camera. do expect they will steal your idea if they think they can abuse it to milk people
This is one of the better public lectures on the channel. This guy is actually capable of coherent speech and communication.
FANTASTIC piece of lecturing. Great knowledge , great flow to explain a very complex phononena in simple words. MORE from.him please!!!
Great explanation. Thanks for uploading such useful content.
wonderful presentation. I could actually understand. great explanations. thanks for this.
Great masterclass for science amateurs. Thank you for sharing. It amazed me the part where the electron is massless and then accretes its mass by interacting with the field... It reminds me of rocky planets orbiting the Sun and acheiving their mass while rotating around the cloud that surrounds the star.
This show was absolutely excellent. More like this please!
Im a 61 yr old female who has decided to study cern. A humanities back ground, suddenly I'm a science girl. Instead of heading to class I get the best lecturers, like this one. You are reaching and teaching this non traditional student and doing an amazing job! Having the education is helping with the math. And yes, I am doing the math, why not? I'm having a good time. Thank you for the world class education. Thank you very much!
I lived in Geneva and saw CERN when there was a visitor day. Just incredible!
amazing top stuff
As usual RI does a super job on a difficult subject. Harry is excellent. His English is spot on. I just really love RI channel. The ads are not over bearing the content is world classy! RI is No Ka Oi! Thanks because in Hawaii there is no other way to get updated on the progress on the standard model.
Can’t hit the like button enough times!!!.. what an amazing presentation! Educational, intriguing… inspiring! 🤩
Harry Cliff Reminds Me Of Carl Sagan - My Working Class Brain Was Enthralled From Beginning To End. I Came Away Wanting To Lean MORE !
Carl Sagan was unequalled. His voice was hypnotic. My mother who had a little knowledge of English was completed charmed by his voice.
Great lecture for novice like me .... better understanding into the particle world ....many thanks for posting it
Excellent presentation!!!!!! Best one I’ve seen yet . Wish I could hear his updates
You can! Just watch this video from 2019, talking about what's next after the LHC: kzhead.info/sun/pamufcOda3-smn0/bejne.html
What a tough crowd. Incredible presentation, thank you!
Excellent presentation. Very accessible. Great job.
Clear and concise. Great lecture Harry!
"In fact particles aren't really what matters at all." I'm the only one who finds that funny? XD
hahaah pun!
@@MrAaronvee Thanks cpt. Obvious XD
@@MrAaronvee exactly my thoughts... everything is vibrating energy fields which is one of the arguments for the holographic universe model... wanna laugh? play an explanation of THAT!
@@MrAaronvee Interesting, I have always been interested in the Quantum Mechanics model, I'd love it if you could point me to some Primary Research or even a speech on it that will give me more than a rudimentary and, frankly embarrassingly small amount of knowledge that I currently possess.
@@solstinger_epiphany6655 Unintended pun:/ hes not that funny,lol
Love the lady who's falling asleep in the background at 33:45 Fascinating presentation though!! I think she's missing out!
Excellent Speaker, an update on the Large Hadron Collider's newest discoveries since the Higgs is welcome news indeed.
I've seen tons of these videos and this is by far the best one, this guy is a genius at explaining complicated stuff so that everyone can understand.
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I'll have to come back to the continued explanation by this young man. I must first digest what I learned so far. I do feel obligated to do this because so many of these discoveries/understandings came to be when I was born. Later.
7 star explanation by Mr Harry Cliff. He simply excelled himself!!
Thanks! this is the best lecture of the year. it keeps me up dated!
That was phenomenal! Please keep pushing our civilisations understanding further and further ... to find out... that this universe is an experiement itself to test if all underlying parameter are correct to enable a stable universe (which we dont, because we are expanding). The next big bang is than a new try with slightly diffrent parameter :D
Thanks so much for putting the links to the original NASA videos in your description!
Thank you for your presentation very interested will be looking for your next update, thanks again from Ramona California.🕶