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The Matter of Everything, with Suzie Sheehy

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Laboriousness of Physics Experiments

Some physics experiments that are very important in history are surprisingly laborious. In particle physics even into the 40s 50s and 60s you had the so-called scanning girls who almost all women there were some men who did it. Even though they've got apparatus that someone has prepared for them that should be working scientists still driven mad by the intricacies of it. It's something that frustrates undergraduate students in the lab when they're learning physics.

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