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The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture

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Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture.
In the past five years particle physicists have made major advances in understanding the nature of our universe – discovering the Higgs boson, and more recently detecting gravitational waves from a distant galaxy. Paradoxically we have also learned a lot more about what we don’t know: that the particles and forces we understand in ever greater detail make up only a small fraction of what’s in the cosmos, and that our theoretical prejudices about what remains to be discovered may have been very wrong. A new generation of ambitious experiments at accelerator laboratories, underground, and studying at the large scale structure of the universe will answer these questions – and surely open up others. I will also outline why it is essential that the country remains at the forefront of frontier research of this kind and how it contributes more broadly to society.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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John Womersley
Keywords
Physics
particle physics
matter
Energy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 07/03/2017
Duration: 01:05:56

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