Shawn Ryan

I was very lucky that the one year that I do, the first year I go to CERN, they discover the Higgs boson.

But, like, you know, science is slow, especially in, like, a big collider.

They're, like, they're discovering the Higgs boson.

That's nothing to do with me, but just the right timing of, like, oh.

The Higgs boson?

Oh, sorry.

What is that?

It's, like, so trying to understand the...

the origin of like masses for like these standard model particles.

It's an extra field that was conjectured to be there to describe also like electroweak symmetry breaking, et cetera.

Like the field content of like the things that mediate interactions between particles.

And so basically they have a new discovery in a way where that's like really rare, but like, you know, sample bias of like you're in there, they do cool stuff.

So like, okay, that was neat.

But again, CERN is huge, right?

So it's just, it's interesting to also see how hard it is to make some measurement for like some quantities within theories that are also esoteric.

And so it's a fun thing to see the engineering side of physics research

But again, I'm just a kid having some fun doing a little bit of... I think it was just for my undergrad thesis along the lines of some data analysis, back of the envelope thing for a future detector type of thing.

I wish that stuff was cool.

See, this thing is these conspiracies, they're never like – it's always just not as cool as they make it sound.

They're just colliding like particles, right?