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whose goal is to understand
what's going on at distances
than the proton...
this is... this is a really
extraordinary testament
to what...
to some of the highest ideals
we can have as human beings.
It's...
Nima and I got our PhDs
around the same time.
He's a couple years ahead of me.
And Nima
is the star of our generation,
and he's the guy we all followed
and looked up to
and tried to keep up with
and tried to outpace
if we could.
Since the mid '70s,
we've had an amazingly
successful theory of nature
that we call the Standard Model
of particle physics.
But sitting in the heart
of the theory is a sickness,
very, very glaring
conceptual problems
that infected
this fantastic understanding.
Why is the universe big?
Why is gravity so much weaker
than all the other forces?
The kinds of answers that this
theory gives to these questions
seems so patently absurd
that we think that we're missing
something very, very big.
And on top of all of that,
there is one prediction
of this theory...
absolutely crucial
for it to even make
internal theoretical sense...
and this is
The Higgs, or something like it,
must show up.
If it doesn't show up,
there's something
truly, deeply wrong,
very, very, deeply wrong
with the way
There are strong reasons
to think that some
of these questions
will find answers at the LHC.
There's been no shortage
of ideas
for what they might be,
but this is really
this generation of people's...
my generation of people's...
only shot.
Ah, so the boss comes.
I was a very young
undergraduate student,
I entered the site.
I was a bit scared
by the corridors
in the CERN main site,
so I was almost lost
in those corridors.
For me, it has been
a wonderful experience,
because I had the chance
of being involved
right from the beginning
and to see, really, an
experiment from starting and...
from zero, essentially.
I've seen two inventors
place out of the ten,
and we probably have seen...
I don't think
the excitement about first beam.
I mean, the entire control room
is like a group
of six-year-olds
whose birthday is next week,
you know,
and there's going to be cake,
and there's going to be
presents,
and all their friends
are going to be there,
and they just, you know...
they just know
it's going to be great.
You know,
they're kind of scattered,
and I can't imagine, 'cause
they're not that big, right?
I've been a postdoc here
for a year,
so I'm a relative newcomer.
But my timing
is sort of perfect.
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