12/03/2016 Click - Short Edition

I'm Spencer Kelly and welcome to a world first.

For years now everyone's been banging on about virtual reality

and how amazing it will be one day when someone thinks of something

We're fed up with the talk so this week we're going to do

This week's Click has been filmed entirely in 360 degrees to

If you go to this address you'll find out how you can watch this

programme on a 360 website, or on a virtual reality smartphone app or

Now, that's great news for you because you don't have to

look at me if you don't want to, you can look in any direction you want.

OK, so at the moment you're watching this in normal boring TV,

but don't worry, we're going to attempt to bring you some of the VR

experience, we're going to move your viewpoint around for you.

So, get ready, enjoy the view, this is Click 360.

To get to our first location we need a little lift.

And even though you're only watching this

Well, what better place to start Click 360 than here.

Welcome to the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps.

About a metre below this snow is some very important monitoring

technology that we've got to dig up, and this is Claudia over here,

You'll have to give us a few minutes for my lips to thaw

We're looking for evidence of things called ice quakes,

tremors caused by the glacier as it sticks and then slips and

The theory is that if the glacier melts faster,

the increased melt water acts as a lubricant which then causes the

I tell you what, Claudia, you didn't have to make me take

There is an orange box where you have the seismometer, or

This is taking measurements from a seismometer

which is taking measurements from the glacier itself?

And you have the wave forms of the seismometers and that is what

You probably can't see from there but something happened,

What causes the vibrations in the glacier?

The vibrations are normally caused just by the movement of the glacier

because the glacier flows, and then the ice cracks when it flows.

And then it creates the crevasses and when it cracks it also

All right, carry on about your work, thank you.

And just to point out, Matterhorn over there.

The research is being conducted by ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute

of Technology, and we'll return to ETH later in the programme.

For now, as we leave the glacier, let's all sit back and enjoy a ride.

At this point you might be wondering what kind of kit we are using to

That last shot, the one inside the helicopter,

was actually filmed using one of these, a Theta, and it's got

just two cameras, one facing that way and one facing that way.

But for better results you're going to

Smile, you're currently a constellation

of six GoPro cameras which together capture their entire surroundings.

We think we've done another world first

for you this week, we have filmed what we think is the world's first

So what we're going to do is we're going to show you in 2D

as you would see it on TV first, and then later on we'll show you in

for 360 so you can see everything that happened in the room.

So have a think about how it might have been done.

I'm just going to pop up over there and hand over to

Hello, my name's Ben Hart and I'm a magician, welcome to this,

the inside of my brain, desolate, cavernous, bleak.

Anyway, we're not here for therapy, we're here to do a miracle,

and nothing says miracle like a plastic glass of orange squash

I told you, they're not going to laugh at that.

I will cover the glass with the tube.

Now the producers tell me I need to bring a bit of pizzazz to

the whole thing so I've got a collapsible magician's top hat.

Now, if I cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I

can turn the whole thing upside down and no liquid will escape.

But this is the bit that's magic as I make the glass vanish completely.

The big 360 reveal is coming later in the programme.

But for now we're going back to Switzerland heading underground.

Welcome to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

Right now you're standing inside CERN, the

European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and you've got a view that

We're about 100 metres beneath the Swiss-French border and above

you is just one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

itself the largest machine in the world.

In a few minutes we'll head up there, yep, on that cherry picker to

see what happens when you smash particles together

But before we do, let me show you what kind of kit you

So here we are walking along part of the Long circular tunnel that

And that's it next to you, that is the Large Hadron Collider,

There are four experiments on the LHC and ten accelerators

in the complex, which together accelerate bunches of particles up

Each section in the tunnel performs a very specific

function, from cooling things down to -271 Celsius, or focusing

the beam, or more specifically beams, that fly around the ring.

Because there are actually two parts running in opposite directions,

and that's so eventually you can smash the two

sets of circulating beams together and create conditions similar to

So, would you like to see what that looks like?

This cavern contains the CMS experiment, a Compact Muon Solenoid,

although there's nothing compact about it if you ask me.

This is one of the places that helps to discover the Higgs boson.

So that big, shiny pipe above you is connected to the tunnels that we

were just in and when the beams of particles are going fast enough,

tiny adjustments are made to bring those two beams together

In an instant, the particles are smashed to pieces.

And it's these even smaller particles that the CMS can detect.

It's an enormous sensor that looks for the fundamental

By using even higher energy collisions, the CERN scientists hope

to find other particles and explain mysteries like dark

energy and dark matter that makes up 95% of the matter in our universe.

This is big science performed on the tiniest of scales.

You may remember earlier we showed you the magician Ben Hart's magic

trick in 2D and we asked you how you thought it might have been done.

Here is the answer, we will take you back to his studio this time

in 360 so you can see everything that happens in the room.

I will cover the glass with the chew.

Now the producers tell me I need to bring a bit of pizzazz to

the whole thing so I've got a collapsible magician's top hat.

Now, if I cover the top of the glass and squeeze very tightly I

can turn the whole thing upside down and no liquid will escape.