Professor Dave Explains
Quantum Gravity and Gravitons: The Search for a Theory of Everything
We've gone through some of the main advancements in modern physics, which brings us to the here and now! What are physicists currently working on? One huge area of interest is developing a quantum field theory for the gravitational...
Next Animation Studio
Electron-ion collider project could reveal atomic nuclei mysteries
The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has endorsed the development of a multi-million-dollar particle accelerator project.
Professor Dave Explains
The Standard Model of Particle Physics
Once you start learning about modern physics, you start to hear about weird particles like quarks and muons and neutrinos. What are all these things? Why are there so many? How do we know they exist? What do they do? Within lies the...
Curated Video
Exploring the Van de Graaff Generator
This video is a demonstration and explanation of a Van de Graaff generator, an electronic device that creates static electricity. The video aims to teach viewers about the concept of static electricity and the role of Van de Graaff...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World's most powerful atom smasher, the Bevatron, is unveiled at Berkeley, CA
Title: "Biggest Atom Smasher" superimposed over Bevatron / WS EXT building / INT PB Bevatron / MS two men riding in box on crane / WS riding over Bevatron / PAN Bevatron / WS generator room / MS man turns on control / CU meters register...
Bridgeman Arts
Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa leave America to go to Europe in 1931. Shots of a cyclotron in laboratory
Einstein and his wife Elsa leave America to go to Europe in 1931. They leave on a train surrounded by a crowd of people. Shots of a cyclotron (invented in 1932) in a scientific research laboratory.
Hearst Metrotone News
Lights flash in a particle accelerator tunnel.
Lights flash in a particle accelerator tunnel.
TED-Ed
How Does an Atom-Smashing Particle Accelerator Work?
Address the question that physics learners are burning to know the answer to: How does an atom-smashing particle accelerator work? The LHC or Large Hadron Collider is introduced as a tool for uncovering the mysterious rules that govern...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin. [4:08]
Other
Colliding Particles: Hunting the Higgs
An episode from a documentary series that follows a team of physicists conducting research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. [5:29]
Other
Cern: The Time Machine: The Lhc Adventure Is a Journey Through Time
How is CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a time machine? View this video introduction to the LHC and its role in helping us understand the universe's origins fifteen billion years ago. [11:00]
Other
Cern: Superconducting Magnets
This video explains how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) utilizes superconducting magnets to accelerate and collide protons. Video must be downloaded; various formats are available. [23:00]