NOVA
Season 42 Episode 11 - Big Bang Machine
On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson, thought to be responsible for giving all the stuff in the universe its mass. Since it was first proposed nearly fifty years ago, the Higgs has been the holy grail of particle physicists: in finding it they validate the "standard model" that underlies all of modern physics and open the door to new discoveries when CERN's giant collider switches on at higher power in 2015.
Episodes in Season 42
Vaccines Calling the Shots
55 min
Rise of the Hackers
55 min
Why Planes Vanish
55 min
Surviving Ebola
55 min
Ben Franklin's Balloons
55 min
First Air War
55 min
Bigger Than T. rex
55 min
Emperor’s Ghost Army
55 min
Killer Landslides
55 min
First Man on the Moon
55 min
Big Bang Machine
55 min
Sunken Ship Rescue
55 min
Sinkholes—Buried Alive
55 min
Colosseum: Roman Death Trap
55 min
Petra: Lost City of Stone
55 min
Hagia Sophia: Istanbul’s Ancient Mystery
55 min
The Great Math Mystery
55 min
Invisible Universe Revealed
55 min
Nazi Attack on America
55 min
Lethal Seas
55 min
Chasing Pluto
55 min
Nuclear Meltdown Disaster
55 min
