CERN at 70: The cradle of the Higgs boson and World Wide Web looks to the future
Started in 1954, the 7,000 scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) are focused on the innovations and discoveries of the future.
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00:00CERN is the biggest lab for fundamental research in physics in the world, and was created 70
00:21years ago, in 1954, just after World War II, bringing together all the nations in Europe
00:29to rebuild a bit physics landscape in Europe, and push the boundaries of knowledge in the
00:37area of fundamental physics, so it means what we look at is to understand the smallest bricks
00:44of nature, and how it impacts the way the universe is working.
00:59This is the largest particle collider in the world, and what we do is we accelerate protons,
01:05protons are small particles like electrons in some ways, but maybe people are more familiar
01:10with electrons, and we accelerate them at almost the speed of light to make collisions
01:17and create many big banks, and in doing so we generate new particles, and the most important
01:24discoveries in the last years was the discovery of the Higgs boson, that was really the missing
01:33piece, let's say, of the theories describing particles that make up everything in the universe.