Brian Cox video Discusses Cosmology and CERN supercollider

[Naty1]

This is quite an entertaining 15 minute video that provides a high level discussion for a general public audience.

[A physics teacher and childhood friend uses the video in her advanced placement HS physics classes in New York. Her students are one group of US kids that I know get a good science grounding.]

Cox even gets a zinger in about New Zealanders [which I did not understand] and also a zinger about Margret Thatcher [which I understand and do not find appropriate].

Brian Cox: CERN's supercollider
http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html

I did have one question: Cox says the shape of DNA can be gleaned from the Standard Model of particle physics mathematics...What's that mean??

If I had a criticism, and it's minor, it would be that he does not mention a dynamic ['empty'] expanding spacetime produces early particles...

 

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I did have one question: Cox says the shape of DNA can be gleaned from the Standard Model of particle physics mathematics...What's that mean??

You can derive the shape the DNA has from rules in chemistry, you can derive these rules from electron orbitals, you can derive these from quantum mechanics, and you can derive the existence of such systems from the Standard Model.