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Last broadcast on Sun, 27 Dec 2009, 13:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
AC Grayling questions a man at the heart of the most audacious and inspiring science project in the world.
As chief architect and project leader of the CMS experiment at Cern’s new Large Hadron Collider, Tejinder Virdee and his team are reckoned to be the most likely to revolutionise physics by discovering the Higgs Boson.
It is a scientific prospect which could be every bit as earth shattering as the discovery of relativity a century ago.
Tejinder Virdee is leader of the CMS experiment, an enormous magnet one hundred metres underground which engineers crashes of particles at close to speed of light and measures the results.
What did it take to build such a machine?
Why is the Higgs Boson so significant?
And will the multi-billion pound particle accelerator actually work this time?
(Image: Large Hadron Collider. Credit: Press Association)
Broadcasts
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Wed 23 Dec 200910:32
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Wed 23 Dec 200915:32
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Wed 23 Dec 200920:32
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Thu 24 Dec 200901:32
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Sun 27 Dec 200913:32
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