The Evans Family Beyond Lecture: Observing the Universe With Your Phone

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What if your smartphone could help solve one of the universe's greatest mysteries? Professor Daniel Whiteson, a physicist who helped discover the Higgs boson by peering into matter's smallest building blocks, is now searching for new particles that could revolutionize our understanding of reality. In this talk, Professor Whiteson will explore how the next breakthrough in fundamental physics might come from the device in your pocket. Through the CRAYFIS (Cosmic Rays Found in Smartphones) project, he’s working to transform billions of smartphones into a planet-sized detector for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays—particles nearly a billion times more energetic than anything we can produce on Earth. These rare and difficult to observe particles hit any given square kilometer of Earth just once a century, yet they hold secrets about the universe's most extreme environments.

Free breakfast. Paid parking. Ask to park by the hour. It is cheaper.