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Quotes from The Secrets of Particle Accelerators — Suzie Sheehy

born 1984 Australia

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I just taught you quantum field theory in about 2 seconds.

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

The higher the frequency the smaller they get.

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

What I'm going to talk about today is the fascinating world, and I really think it's wonderful, of particle accelerators.

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

I want to go back to about the late 1920s and 1930s when a new type of particle accelerator was invented, called the cyclotron.

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

The amazing thing about this collection of particles, which admittedly looks arbitrary until you learn it in more detail, is that you can take the entire description of every known particle and interaction, other than gravity, in the universe, and write it down on a mug.

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

This... is only one particle accelerator in the world... there are actually about 35,000 of them...

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

Try something for me. ...Hold [the tube] halfway down. [Half of the lamp goes out] ...You're grounding any of the electrons which are... moving inside there...

The Secrets of Particle Accelerators (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Suzie Sheehy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.