Here are some video clips of talks that I have given to a public audience (with more to come!)
- A Ring of Truth: Seeking Answers to Big Questions at the Large Hadron Collider (Secret Science Club, Brooklyn, NY, March 16, 2011)
- Excerpt 1 (6 mins.) Find out why the Higgs is often called “The God Particle”, and what a “Field” is.
- Excerpt 2 (7 mins.) Find out why you do care about the Higgs field, and how to make and detect Z particles.
- Excerpt 3 (8 mins.) Learn how to find the Higgs particle!
- Q&A excerpts (10 mins.) An assortment of excellent questions and sometimes good answers.
Here’s an hour-long on-line radio interview about the Large Hadron Collider, with me as interviewee, and well-known science writer, documentary film-maker and MIT professor Tom Levenson as interviewer:
Here’s a one and a half hour panel discussion (from the March 2012 SEARCH workshop) that is at a professional level, so not much of it is really layperson-friendly. But some of you may find it interesting to hear theoretical particle physicists reacting to this very interesting moment: when the data from the Large Hadron Collider is enough to hint at a Higgs particle but is insufficient for convincing evidence. In my post from May 4th, 2012 you’ll find suggestions on what you might find most worth listening to, and a glossary to help you with a bit of the jargon.
- SEARCH workshop panel discussion (University of Maryland, March 18, 2012)
Nice Talks !
Great talks – thanks
Very nice. Could we expect more of these, perhaps even a whole lecture?
Unfortunately, taking raw video and combining it with powerpoint slides into something really workable is expensive and time consuming. [For scale -- To do the three main clips shown here is of order ~$1000 and eight hours working with professional editors.] If there is enough demand, I can do it, maybe late this year, but I’ll need to find a way to cover costs. No rush since I don’t have time this winter anyway…
Maybe there is an easy way to cover costs. Maybe you could try it with http://www.kickstarter.com/ . I’m sure the guys there will love to fund your videos!
I think kickstarter is a great idea. I for one would love to watch the entire Bell House lecture (or a lecture covering comparable material) and imagine that you could easily get 200 people to pledge $5 to cover recording / production costs. Just to show plausibility:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kirby/this-is-not-a-conspiracy-theory?ref=category