Remember when we all had a particle accelerator in our homes?

05/06/2025 29 min Episodio 110
Remember when we all had a particle accelerator in our homes?

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Episode Synopsis

Tech has advanced rapidly and the future hold exciting possibilities, even some of the stuff that’s now obsolete was pretty nifty. Ellie, Laura and Antonia start off by looking at cathode ray tubes, which are a pretty old way of generating moving pictures. They also look at the large hadron collider and consider what sort of technology we might have in the future, whether that is teleportation or autonomous plants.
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