Particle Fever

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Fabiola Gianotti and David Kaplan in ATLAS Cavern.

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Superconducting magnets in the LHC tunnel.

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Calorimeter inside the ATLAS detector.

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Fabiola Gianotti celebrating in the ATLAS control room, March 29, 2010, the day of First High Energy Collisions.

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Fabiola Gianotti celebrating in the ATLAS control room, March 29, 2010, the day of First High Energy Collisions.

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Monica Dunford emerges from ATLAS.

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CERN Globe of Science and Innovation at night.

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For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to our generation’s most 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 to understand why we exist?

Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, and masterfully edited by Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now," "The English Patient"), “Particle Fever” is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.