00:00Code of the Universe is a travelling photographic exhibition showcasing the global quest to understand the complexity of the world around us.
00:10It features a series of 40 panels that discuss open questions in modern physics.
00:14One of the things that has driven humanity for a very long time is the question, why? Why are we here?
00:21Why is the world around us the way it is? And the Code of the Universe really shines a spotlight onto that question.
00:27Through images the exhibition highlights how international collaborative efforts to understand existential and scientific questions have not only deepened our knowledge of particle physics but also driven breakthroughs that innovative accelerated technologies have in our daily lives.
00:45Visitors are invited to reflect on fundamental questions such as what is a universe made of?
00:49It explains how we are trying to make sense of the universe, how we are trying to recreate conditions that are similar to those Big Bang events that might have been the beginning of all time and how we do that with particle accelerators.
01:04The exhibition has been shown in several European cities but this is the first time it's come into the UK and it's on display to visitors until Thursday the 18th of September.
01:13No single university, no single country could ever do these by themselves so it really requires international collaboration that underpins everything we are doing.
01:25We really rely on our international partners and that's why we have that conference here to have those discussions where we can sit down and really talk about the difficult technologies that we are using and how we can make that next step to make them even better.
01:38X-ray devices, radio, therapy machines and particle colliders have all helped shape the modern world bringing countless benefits to society in terms of health, security and our own understanding of the universe.
01:52What all these machines have in common is a beam of high energy particles that must be measured and controlled for them to achieve their intended purpose, be it destroying a tumour or maximising the production of Higgs bosons.
02:04That's the goal of the scientists and engineers who are at the University of Liverpool for the International Beam Instrumentation Conference.
02:12Fundamentally particle accelerators are used to take us back to the beginning of time really.
02:18They are time machines that allow us to create conditions as they were found right after the Big Bang itself in a laboratory environment.
02:26The conference will also host an industry exhibition for key companies in the acceleration sector which moves around £3 billion a year.
02:35These include manufacturers of magnets, electronics, detectors and high precision mechanics.
02:41Accelerators are also used for practical applications.
02:45They are used in hospitals for cancer treatment for instance.
02:48Now any accelerator can only ever be as good as the instruments that characterise the beams in these machines and that's really what this conference is all about.
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