Particle Fever Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Mark Levinson
Production: BOND360
  6 wins & 3 nominations.
 
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Year:
2013
99 min
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whose goal is to understand

what's going on at distances

a thousand times smaller

than the proton...

this is... this is a really

extraordinary testament

to what...

to some of the highest ideals

we can have as human beings.

It's...

Nima and I got our PhDs

around the same time.

He's a couple years ahead of me.

And Nima

is the star of our generation,

and he's the guy we all followed

and looked up to

and tried to keep up with

and tried to outpace

if we could.

Since the mid '70s,

we've had an amazingly

successful theory of nature

that we call the Standard Model

of particle physics.

But sitting in the heart

of the theory is a sickness,

very, very glaring

conceptual problems

that infected

this fantastic understanding.

Why is the universe big?

Why is gravity so much weaker

than all the other forces?

The kinds of answers that this

theory gives to these questions

seems so patently absurd

that we think that we're missing

something very, very big.

And on top of all of that,

there is one prediction

of this theory...

absolutely crucial

for it to even make

internal theoretical sense...

and this is

the famous Higgs particle.

The Higgs, or something like it,

must show up.

If it doesn't show up,

there's something

truly, deeply wrong,

very, very, deeply wrong

with the way

we think about physics.

There are strong reasons

to think that some

of these questions

will find answers at the LHC.

There's been no shortage

of ideas

for what they might be,

but this is really

this generation of people's...

my generation of people's...

only shot.

Ah, so the boss comes.

I first came to CERN in 1987.

I was a very young

undergraduate student,

and I remember the first time

I entered the site.

I was a bit scared

by the corridors

in the CERN main site,

so I was almost lost

in those corridors.

For me, it has been

a wonderful experience,

because I had the chance

of being involved

right from the beginning

and to see, really, an

experiment from starting and...

from zero, essentially.

I've seen two inventors

place out of the ten,

and we probably have seen...

I don't think

I can describe right now

the excitement about first beam.

I mean, the entire control room

is like a group

of six-year-olds

whose birthday is next week,

you know,

and there's going to be cake,

and there's going to be

presents,

and all their friends

are going to be there,

and they just, you know...

they just know

it's going to be great.

You know,

they're kind of scattered,

and I can't imagine, 'cause

they're not that big, right?

I've been a postdoc here

for a year,

so I'm a relative newcomer.

But my timing

is sort of perfect.

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