About This Video

When the Large Hadron Collider first came online, there was much disinformation and fear about the tremendous energy levels required to run the experiments. Most public concern was about the possibility of the LHC creating a black hole that would swallow the planet. Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek and LHC’s high-energy physicist Jennifer Klay explain why that’s not how it works.

Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution; Recorded June 2010; Posted September 2010