An evening with Sean Carroll

Описание: For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva announced that they found it.

This is the audio file of a very special event held in March with Professor Sean Carroll. Introduced by Nobel Laureate and former Harvard roommate Professor Brian Schmidt, Professor Carroll explains why the Higgs boson is so important, the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and considers what the future of particle physics looks like.

Sean Carroll is a physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 1993 from Harvard University. His research focuses on theoretical physics and cosmology, especially the origin and constituents of the universe.

He has contributed to models of interactions between dark matter, dark energy and ordinary matter; alternative theories of gravity; and violations of fundamental symmetries. Professor Carroll is the author of From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, and the forthcoming The Particle at the End of the Universe. He has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television.

This audio file also features the music of local Canberra band Party Gravy.