Particle physics dives into the very depths of the universe – the particles that make up atoms. Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic particles than ever before, culminating in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, also called the God particle. Frank Close, the author of Infinity Puzzle and Elusive: How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass, has had a front-row seat to many of these revelations. He joins New Scientist reporter Alex Wilkins to talk about his career and all things particle physics, including how quarks group together and what it was like sitting on stage with Peter Higgs after the Large Hadron Collider found that elusive particle.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:39 Finding the building blocks of nature
00:06:40 Why are there so many possible particles?
00:19:51 Pentaquarks, glueballs and other strange particles
00:27:55 The Higgs boson
00:37:45 The deep mysteries of Higgs
00:43:10 Exploring energy scales after the big bang
00:46:52 Supersymmetry
00:53:49 New mathematics for new physics
00:56:50 Neutrinos
01:03:01 Why are we here?
