"What's The Matter At CERN?
or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The LHC", 2009 (16 min)
A short documentary about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
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About
Topics include the widely-spread rumors that the LHC could produce catastrophic black holes, the multinational contributions to the LHC and its detector experiments, as well as efforts by scientists, past and present, to communicate the LHC and other complex experiments to the public.
Features interviews with leading physicists and popular science experts.
Festival screenings
"What's the Matter At CERN?" will be playing on Thursday, October 22nd at The CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. Visit Imagine Science Films for more information!
Media coverage
The X-Change Files
Symmetry Magazine
Photo gallery
Credits
Thanks to Jay Ingram (Discovery Channel), Peter Krieger (University of Waterloo), Damian Pope (Perimeter Institute), Donna Francis (Ontario Science Center) and Neil Mills of CERN.
Directed, filmed and edited by Chris Butcher
Assistant camera: Jonathan Balazs
