Research Catalog

Title

Why is gravity so weak?, Answers from the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tuts, Michael.
• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• "In the first lecture last night, I described the Standard model of particle physics. In that picture the fundamental particles are subject to three forces -- the electromagnetic force (like the force that moves a compass in a magnetic field); the weak force which is responsible for the radioactive decay of particles; and the strong force which binds together the protons that make up the nubleus of an atom. Conspicuously absent is the force that we are perhaps most familiar with, the gravitational force. It is the force that holds the plants in their orbits, and keeps out feet firmly planted on the earth. Why don't we include it in our standard model? One of the reasons is that gravity seems anomalously weaker than any of the other forces. A simple experiment in which a small refrigerator magnet acting on a paper clip can overcome the gravitational pull of the whole earth is a vivid demonstration of how weak the gravitational force really is. Some theories that might provide an answer are string theories and their variants. The key is that nature may have more than the three space dimensions we are familiar with, although they are too small for us to experience. However gravity will experience all the dimensions, and might therefore be diluted and hence weak. This also means that at small distances, gravity might in fact be strong, and if so, we may be able to produce micro black holes in the collisions at the LHC -- a truly astonishing prospect that we could test experimentally. Our journey tonight will take us from this question to the practical issues of how we hope to address it experimentally with the ATLAS experiment." -- Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.
• Question and answer session includes questions about anti-matter, gravitons and gravitational waves, why gravity would be more prone to disappear, is there any evidence of more than three dimensions, and is there any risk associated with these unknown elements including the creation of strange quarks.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Professor Michael Tuts, Why is gravity so weak?

Subject

• Tuts, Michael
• Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
• Gravitation
• Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Quarks
• Leptons (Nuclear physics)

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Video.
• Dance.
• Nonfiction films.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 7, 2011 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Mary Sharp Cronson.

Biography (note)

• "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is the world's highest energy accelorator. It has been under construction for more than a decade and began operations in 2010. The LHC is used by four large experiments, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE to study the collisions of protons with protons. Making use of Einstein's equation, E=mc2, we are able to use these collisions to recreate the conditions of the early universe and produce particles that have not occurred naturally since that time." Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.

Contents

Introduction (1 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson -- Presentation (65 min.) / presented by Michael Tuts -- Question and answer (12 min.) / speaker, Michael Tuts.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6100

OCLC

730247132

Title

Why is gravity so weak?, Answers from the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2011.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Original Version

Original format: 1 DV cassette.

Performer

Presenter, Professor Michael Tuts, experimental particle physicists at Columbia University.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 7, 2011 (7:30 pm).

Biography

"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is the world's highest energy accelorator. It has been under construction for more than a decade and began operations in 2010. The LHC is used by four large experiments, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE to study the collisions of protons with protons. Making use of Einstein's equation, E=mc2, we are able to use these collisions to recreate the conditions of the early universe and produce particles that have not occurred naturally since that time." Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Tuts, Michael. Interviewee

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Speaker

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6100