Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 45 minutes ago
Dr Rohini Godbole will trace the journey of physicists who have worked towards gaining an understanding of ‘what lies within’, from Rutherford to the Large Hadron Collider. Beginning from Rutherford’s classic experiment which indicated the presence of a nucleus inside an atom, today science has reached a stage where we understand what lies at the heart of the matter. The discovery of the Higgs boson ten years ago at the Large Hadron Collider was a big step in arriving at this understanding. Furthermore, this ‘inward bound journey’ has implications for different puzzles that the Universe and the Cosmos has set for us. Thus the continuing journey towards unravelling the secrets of nature now have to proceed on twin paths of experiments on the earth and in the sky.
Dr Rohini Godbole will trace the journey of physicists who have worked towards gaining an understanding of ‘what lies within’, from Rutherford to the Large Hadron Collider. Beginning from Rutherford’s classic experiment which indicated the presence of a nucleus inside an atom, today science has reached a stage where we understand what lies at the heart of the matter. The discovery of the Higgs boson ten years ago at the Large Hadron Collider was a big step in arriving at this understanding. Furthermore, this ‘inward bound journey’ has implications for different puzzles that the Universe and the Cosmos has set for us. Thus the continuing journey towards unravelling the secrets of nature now have to proceed on twin paths of experiments on the earth and in the sky.
