"For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation.As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist?"
(film press release)
It's directed by a physicist, so it's understandable.
Fascinating account of a complex scientific experiment that just might eventually answer the "how" we got here.
"Why," of course, is a silly question, assuming there is some sort of Grand Plan.
Edits: 05/05/14
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Topic - "Particle Fever:" interested in the most fascinating physics experiment of the past 75 years? - tinear 15:21:51 05/05/14 (3)
- Particle physics, like space exploration, is so anticlimactic. Don't know why. Nt - geoffkait 05:59:58 05/07/14 (1)
- Because a climax is besides the point. nt - tinear 20:35:17 05/18/14 (0)
- Netflix.... I have this on 'save' (nt) - mbnx01 15:43:30 05/05/14 (0)