SciShow: Why Scientists Want to Build a Shoebox-Sized Particle Accelerator

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Content of the Lesson: If you want to make particles move really fast, you have to build a particle accelerator that is really big, right? Not anymore! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://home.cern/science/accelerators https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/79/tab-pdf http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/fvx/iop/physworld/optics14/ http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=14017885816503 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12664 http://iiaglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/EuCARD-Applications-of-Accelerators-2017.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5689882/ https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.9.111301 https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=106856&ver=2 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.134803 Image Sources: http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=14017885816503 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_November_2005.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/metall-tube-vertical-curve-gm157439558-9019310 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-background-gm672836952-123242727 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/CERN_Linac.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cms-experiment-detector-muon-endcup-gm450292701-30074462 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-tissue-mimicking-mannequin-head-on-a-medical-linear-accelerator-used-for-gm1175854194-327605253?clarity=false https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Electromagnetic_spectrum_illustrations#/media/File:BW_EM_spectrum.png https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.9.111301


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