even here very more than five hundred feet underground beneath france and switzerland is the large hadron collider the biggest machine ever built by humans it's a seventeen mile long oval track run by the european organization for nuclear research also known as cern the purpose of the large hadron collider is to recreate the conditions that existed in the universe right after the big bang in order to find out what the most basic fundamentals are to everything more basic than our cells inside of us more basic than the elements on the periodic table more basic than atoms and more basic than subatomic stuff like new ones who owns quarks and the way scientists are trying to find this really really small most basic stuff in the universe is there smashing things together really fast it's kind of like trying to figure out the most basic stuff inside an i phone by taking you know two i phones and smashing them together really hard until they break into tiny little fundamental pieces. so that's what's happening at the large hadron collider not with i phones but scientists are smashing particles together at

scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god particle now why that is so important is well if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really theorize mass into equations concerning particle physics it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to explain it to the lay person imagine good we have

tell me a little bit more about this i'm joined by professor under a gluten who works at the large hadron collider in switzerland prophetical and thanks very much for talking to me please as simply as you can for the layman out there what is the higgs bo's'n and what scientific relevance does it have or if you know i'm right meaning your wrist put us back to the ground so what does he give them for the first well for us what is important to find symmetry which somehow govern the nature and long time we've thought we have found this kind of symmetry which is called standard model this is not just a static series it's just dynamic siri which way to equation which describes all known interaction of particles and this model works incredibly well. however the only problem with a model over the model was written for the particles we don't have masses. and then the math on you was and went to just to give muscles to the particles how was this particles what sort of photos of one it was not found experimentally people was hunting for this particle for years and now we are witnessing clearly historical mom

all scientists working at the large hadron collider in search of announcing they may have made a major discovery of recent times after finding something consistent with the elusive god particle or pigs both and join me in a few moments for more on that. it's eight minutes past the hour. pressure from all corners sweet innocent on extraditing julian assange to answer sex crimes allegations while the u.s. is investigating him for a huge leak of secret files by wiki leaks whistleblowers currently holed up in the ecuador's embassy in london awaiting for a decision on his asylum bit while under house arrest songe produced an interview show aired on our t.v. and it made world headlines laura smith looks back at the news making program. i'm julian assange. it is true. expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question because it was what it promised an insight into the world to morrow and in twelve episodes julie and our songs interviewed opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum

scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god particle now why that is so important is well if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really theorize mass into equations concerning particle physics if we look at it this way the main theory worked within this area of science is the well less than grandiose name of the standard model and if we think of that as a jigsaw puzzle with a whole load of different pieces missing if this proves to be the higgs boson well that fills in some of those missing pieces giving scientists a clearer picture of what they're working with now it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to expla

slam protons together, other particles at very, very high speed which is what happens at the large hadron collider. >> rose: and they can only do that with a collider like this. >> exactly. so you slam the particles together at very high speed and you can jig this will invisible molasses, sometimes flick out a little speck of this molasses, which would be a higgs particle. so people look for that little speck of a particle and now there's evidence that it has been found. >> rose: so when we mean matter we mean like you and me and we mean this table and this cup and this glass and this pen. >> the fundamental particles making up that matter would have their mass from this interaction with the higgs field, the molasses. >> rose: how big is this idea? >> it's a huge one. it's at the centerpiece which is known as the standard model of particle physics which is an equation that people have developed over many decades that we have been used to predict what would happen at colliders around the world. every experimental result can be explained using this standard model particle physics with the one missin

the large hadron collider is the largest of them all. >> the large hadron collider. thank you very much. thank you. the spotlight in britain's banking scandal will stay on bob diamond today, one day after he resigned as the head of barclays. he will face questions at the british parliament before the treasury select committee. he will be quizzed over his bank's role in manipulation of lending rates. pressure has been building up on barclays since facing fines on submitting false reports. >> yesterday marked the end of his career at barclays. today marks the start of the questions about what on earth was going on when he was there. for bob diamond, that means two to three hours in front of across party group of mp's, in public and in front of the tv cameras. what do they want to ask him? >> i want to know how much the management knew. they told us it was just the supervisors who knew. i cannot believe that. other people higher up must have known exactly what was going on. they need to be clear about that. >> expect plenty of questions about conversations bob diamond h

operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world its most celebrated project is the large hadron collider the giant facility built to tast fundamental physical theories it's a unique particle accelerator that unites scientists from nearly one hundred countries some seven hundred russians to take part in constructing the collider and many of them continue to work at cern. however mr hurd thank you for joining us on the show. welcome mr heard rush has started the procedure of joining has an associate member well what are the benefits well first of all for russian scientists of this procedure can you can you tell us please where the benefit is not only for russian scientists the benefit is for russian nationals in general engineers technicians in the administration every of year because they can apply for positions that. limited duration for example and then learn doing science engineering new technologies in an international environment and then bring this back into that country so this is a big opportunity for russian nationals and it's also pick up on your n.t. for the russian industry to

scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god particle now why that is so important is well if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really theorize mass into equations concerning particle physics it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to explain it to the lay person imagine good we have a planet which is populated by of course we have nor muscles and we believe that we understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play longer muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explain how it could go to their muscles and this is done using the hugues was unwelcome jus