La fièvre des particules

Original title: Particle Fever

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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.

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As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.

Director
- Mark Levinson
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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

7.7K

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Director
- Mark Levinson
Stars

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Awards
- 6 wins & 4 nominations total

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David Kaplan

Self - Theoretical Physicist, John Hopkins University

Fabiola Gianotti

Self - Project Leader Atlas Experiment

Sherwood Boehlert

Self - Representative, New York
(archive footage)

Joel Hefley

Self - Representative, Colorado
(archive footage)

Savas Dimopoulos

Self - Theoretical Physicist, Stanford University

Nima Arkani-Hamed

Self - Theoretical Physicist, Princeton University

Monica Dunford

Self - Postdoc Student, Atlas Experiment

Martin Aleksa

Self - Run Coordinator, Atlas Experiment

Lyn Evans

Self - LHC Project Director

Mike Lamont

Self - Head of Collider Operations, LHC

Peter Jenni

Self - Founding Leader, Atlas Experiment

Riccardo Barbieri

Self - Theoretical Physicist, University of Pisa

Peter Higgs

Self - Theoretical Physicist

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Self - Director General, CERN
(as Rolph-Dieter Heuer)

Asmina Arvanitaki

Self

Brooke Baldwin

Self
(archive footage)

Ashleigh Banfield

Self
(archive footage)

James Beacham

Self

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Goofs
Two Republican congressman speak against funding for the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas. This gives the false impression that it was Republicans who ended the project. The 1993 Congress had Democrat majorities in both the House and the Senate. Additionally, the President at that time was a Democrat. The leader of the effort to end funding for the project in the House was Democrat Jim Slattery. Voting to end the funding was bipartisan.

Quotes
David Kaplan: Basic science for big breakthroughs needs to occur at a level where you're not asking "What is the economic gain?" You're asking "What do we not know, and where can we make progress?"

Connections
References La Grotte des rêves perdus (2010)

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Why we (should, perhaps) care

The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic experimental apparatus, conceived in an attempt to discover the fundamental particles that make up the universe. This documentary about it is relatively light on the physics: in concentrates on the hopes of some of the scientists working on it, conveying their innate excitement for their subject rather than the technical details of how and why. But it does convey some of the reasons why this work is (at least theoretically) important: the Higgs Bosun, the previously elusive particle that was target number one for the LHC, is central to modern physical models of the universe; and moreover, determining its mass would help us choose between two broader theories: one is which the universe exists in a state of perfect symmetry, and the other in which it is just one of a huge array of universes, each with their own peculiar properties. And I think the documentary succeeds in inducing its audience to share these concerns. How this relates to the world as we perceive it on a daily basis is very unclear; but the urge to understand is something very fundamental in our humanity, and 'Particle Fever' conveys this well.