Jun 21, 2022
Accelerator physicist Dr. Suzie Sheehy visits Google to discuss her
book "The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our
World." Her book tells a hopeful story of human ingenuity,
creativity and unending curiosity, and introduces us to the people
who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged
ground-breaking experiments that shaped the world as we know
it.
From the physicists who soared in hot air balloons on the trail of
new particles, to the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German
lab; and from the race to split open the atomic nucleus, to the
quest to find the third generation of matter, Dr. Sheehy offers a
reminder of the thrilling discoveries that have shaped our
lives—often without us even knowing it. Radio, TV, the chips in our
smartphones, MRI scanners, radar equipment and microwaves, to name
a few: these were all made possible by our determination to
understand, and control, our world.
Moderated by Matt Bongiovi.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.