Credited cast: | |||
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David Kaplan | ... | Self - Theoretical Physicist, John Hopkins University |
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Fabiola Gianotti | ... | Self - Project Leader Atlas Experiment |
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Sherwood Boehlert | ... | Self - Representative, New York (archive footage) |
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Joel Hefley | ... | Self - Representative, Colorado (archive footage) |
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Savas Dimopoulos | ... | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Stanford University |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed | ... | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Princeton University |
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Monica Dunford | ... | Self - Postdoc Student, Atlas Experiment |
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Martin Aleksa | ... | Self - Run Coordinator, Atlas Experiment |
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Lyn Evans | ... | Self - LHC Project Director |
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Mike Lamont | ... | Self - Head of Collider Operations, LHC |
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Peter Jenni | ... | Self - Founding Leader, Atlas Experiment |
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Riccardo Barbieri | ... | Self - Theoretical Physicist, University of Pisa |
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Peter Higgs | ... | Self - Theoretical Physicist |
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Rolf-Dieter Heuer | ... | Self - Director General, CERN (as Rolph-Dieter Heuer) |
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Asmina Arvanitaki | ... | Self |
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.
Since real science gets very little public exposure in any positive way, anticipation was high that this would help deliver that. While it made a credible attempt, I was rather disappointed at the lack of balanced credit. To the average public citizen it came across as largely the work of a few visionaries and one particular experiment - ATLAS. There were several others who did major yeoman like efforts and that is why I gave it only 6 stars. The human stories were particularly good, perseverance despite the adversity, it could have easily done it without the expletives as well. While it is a documentary and did a fantastic job of chronologically growing with the major real life characters, it failed to acknowledge numerous labs and institutions, along the way who were much more than mere influencers. But definitely worthwhile, hope the next generation of the story raises the bar.