Thirty-years in the making, and responsible for the creation of the world wide web, CERN's Large Hadron Collider takes a look at our sub-atomic world known as Particle Physics. This is the stuff that occurred shortly after the Big Bang. The documentary Particle Fever provides a palatable version of the big questions raised by the multi-billion dollar and multinational experiments emanating from this colossal man-made machine located in Switzerland.
In 2012, the Collider was set in motion collecting data which later led to a corroborative finding of the Higgs-Boson, sometimes referred to as the "God Particle". The scientists behind this theory were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013.
Since the initial trials in 2012 other important discoveries have been made utilizing data from CERN's experiment. However, the machine has been shut down for the past two-years to make necessary upgrades which will allow scientists to speed up the accelerator with the hopes of taking the experiments to a higher level. CERN will roll out the next level beginning in June, 2015 if everything is a go and thus far all systems are a GO,
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