Meet the Americans working on the LHC Video
Meet the Americans working on the LHC Video Transcript
>> For these young American scientists the opportunity to work on the Collider at CERN is the chance of a lifetime. Steve Non [assumed spelling] is from MIT, Monica Dunford [assumed spelling] from the University of Chicago, and Steve Goldfarb [assumed spelling] is from the University of Michigan. So there's a lot of Americans here?
>> Yeah
>> There's a lot of Americans here. In a recent report they said that 52% of all particle physicists -- all the US particle physicists are here. [inaudible] There's a lot.
>> Do you feel any pressure?
>> Oh Yeah
>> Absolutely
>> Really? How hard have you been working?
>> Monica: Well, I haven't been to the grocery store in 5 weeks, so I think I have a jar of mustard and a stick of butter in my refrigerator right now.
>> Do you feel like you're part of something historic?
>> Monica: Absolutely -- Yeah
>> It's like opening a whole new window that you never saw before, and you open the window and you want -- you get a whole new vista of things that might happen that you didn't have access to before, so from a scientist's point of view it's the biggest thing to happen in particle physics in say, 20 to 30 years.
>> Monica: Yeah
>> What's the average person gonna get out of this?
>> What's the -- the best thing is, we don't know.
>> Somebody told me this morning that it's possible that what's uncovered here or discovered here could eventually lead to discovery of another dimension we're not even aware of. Possible?
>> Sure
>> Monica: Possible
>> Extra dimensions like what?
>> Well, like dimensions in space and time. Right? We live in 3 spatial dimensions. I can move anywhere -- we live in one time dimension as well, but there's no reason you can't necessarily have more.
>> If our perception is that, but then there's no reason that there isn't another dimension that we're just not seeing and this could give us a window on it. ^E00:01:40
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