Sep 26 2019 39 mins 157
This week’s podcast begins with Matin Durrani and Hamish Johnston pondering the significance of a claim of quantum supremacy that has hit the headlines recently. Then, Tami Freeman dons a hardhat and joins a public tour of CERN, which includes a trip underground to see the Large Hadron Collider. Tami also reports back from the Medical Physics and Engineering Conference (MPEC 2019), which was held earlier this week in Bristol. Next up is Anna Demming who explains why carbon is better than oxygen and laments the fact that we might be running out of some “endangered elements” that are crucial for modern technologies. Finally, Hamish and Matin make the case for their favourite Nobel prizes of the past and look at why so many top physicists are immigrants.
