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Particle Fever

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 39m
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7.4/10
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Particle Fever (2013)
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
  • Stars
    • David Kaplan
    • Fabiola Gianotti
    • Sherwood Boehlert
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    7.4/10
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    • Director
      • Mark Levinson
    • Stars
      • David Kaplan
      • Fabiola Gianotti
      • Sherwood Boehlert
    • 33User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 4 nominations

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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
    Brooke Baldwin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Ashleigh Banfield
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    James Beacham
    • Self
    • Director
      • Mark Levinson
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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 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

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    10/10
    Far better than Oscar material: Every student, whatever age, should watch this film
    This is one of the two or three best documentaries I've ever seen. We were so lucky to see an advance screening at our movie preview club.

    It's hard to believe that a documentary about particle physics and the Hadron collider could be dramatic, suspenseful, even thrilling. It's just as hard to make the subject matter - the creation and operation of a huge facility in Switzerland for the purpose of colliding sub-atomic particles at great speed to search for clues about the universe - both intelligible and accessible. Yet this film has brilliantly done both.

    Accessibility is achieved partly through clear explanations from particle physicist (and co-producer) David Kaplan and other theoretical physicists, and several experimental physicists who work at the collider. Even more compelling are the clear, beautiful, and simple-to-understand graphics that accompany these explanations. Indeed, the great graphics begin right from the opening credits. All this is enhanced by the editing of multi-Oscar-winner Walter Murch.

    The drama comes from the efforts of the experimentalists to prove the theorists' ideas true - especially the existence of the "Higgs boson," the crucial particle of modern physics. The drama is enhanced by presenting a pleasant cast of surprisingly normal, friendly (and, of course, super-smart) physicists who have strong rooting interests in the outcome the way some of us might root for a sports team - but with so much more at stake. There's even tension (albeit friendly) between the "multi-universe" and "dual symmetry" camps.

    Watch this film and you'll understand these phrases and so much more. I learned more than I ever thought I could. And in the most pleasant, enthusiastic, accessible way possible.
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    • Release date
      • September 3, 2014 (Netherlands)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Locos por las partículas
    • Filming locations
      • Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland
    • Production companies
      • Particle Fever
      • Anthos Media
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $869,838
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $53,901
      • Mar 9, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $869,838
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      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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