In search of the perfect vacuum part 1 -- Jeremy Webb -- Nothing event

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Channel: New Scientist · 2013 · Science & Technology

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For centuries people believed that a vacuum was impossible, even immoral. Jeremy Webb explains how we got from here to the near-perfect vacuum at the core of the Large Hadron Collider.

Watch the other videos from this event to join the team from New Scientist and our of guest speakers for an entertaining evening of amazing insights into nothingness. Find out now nothing shapes the world around us, from the importance of zero to how a few words can kill to understanding the big bang.

13 November 2013, Conway Hall, London

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