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Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.
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?
Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.
Original Release
06/14/2013
US Release
09/29/2013
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Cast
Name | Character |
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David Kaplan | Self - Theoretical Physicist, John Hopkins University / Self |
Fabiola Gianotti | Self - Project Leader Atlas Experiment / Self |
Sherwood Boehlert | Self - Representative, New York |
Joel Hefley | Self - Representative, Colorado |
Savas Dimopoulos | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Stanford University / Self |
Nima Arkani-Hamed | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Princeton University / Self |
Monica Dunford | Self - Postdoc Student, Atlas Experiment / Self |
Martin Aleksa | Self - Run Coordinator, Atlas Experiment / Self |
Lyn Evans | Self - LHC Project Director |
Mike Lamont | Self - Head of Collider Operations, LHC / Self |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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David Kaplan | Self - Theoretical Physicist, John Hopkins University / Self |
Fabiola Gianotti | Self - Project Leader Atlas Experiment / Self |
Sherwood Boehlert | Self - Representative, New York |
Joel Hefley | Self - Representative, Colorado |
Savas Dimopoulos | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Stanford University / Self |
Nima Arkani-Hamed | Self - Theoretical Physicist, Princeton University / Self |
Monica Dunford | Self - Postdoc Student, Atlas Experiment / Self |
Martin Aleksa | Self - Run Coordinator, Atlas Experiment / Self |
Lyn Evans | Self - LHC Project Director |
Mike Lamont | Self - Head of Collider Operations, LHC / Self |
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 |
Asmina Arvanitaki | Self |
Brooke Baldwin | Self |
Ashleigh Banfield | Self |
James Beacham | Self |
Jed Biesiada | Self |
Christophe Clement | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Thomas Campbell Jackson | Executive Producer |
Gerry Ohrstrom | Executive Producer |
Brian David Cange | Producer |
David Kaplan | Producer |
Mark Levinson | Producer |
Andrea Miller | Producer |
Wendy Sax | Producer |
Carla Solomon | Producer |