Supersymmetry Vs. Multiverse: Levinson’s Doc A Non-Experiment
Over three decades ago, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) began it’s initial steps toward constructing the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider beneath the earth through a seventeen mile circular tunnel that crosses the French and Swiss borders. The massive construct would allow physicists to test long contemplated theories of particle physics, potentially unlocking the mysteries of our seemingly miraculous existence. In 2008, with the collaboration of thousands of scientists and engineers from hundreds of countries around the globe, the Large Hadron Collider (Lhc) was finally completed. Adding in the involvement of six of the passionate and kooky physicists directly involved with the project or patiently awaiting the results of the first particle collision experiments, this is where Mark Levinson’s entertaining, yet dryly verbose Particle Fever begins.
Having completed a doctorate in particle physics from Berkeley long before he became a filmmaker,...
Over three decades ago, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) began it’s initial steps toward constructing the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider beneath the earth through a seventeen mile circular tunnel that crosses the French and Swiss borders. The massive construct would allow physicists to test long contemplated theories of particle physics, potentially unlocking the mysteries of our seemingly miraculous existence. In 2008, with the collaboration of thousands of scientists and engineers from hundreds of countries around the globe, the Large Hadron Collider (Lhc) was finally completed. Adding in the involvement of six of the passionate and kooky physicists directly involved with the project or patiently awaiting the results of the first particle collision experiments, this is where Mark Levinson’s entertaining, yet dryly verbose Particle Fever begins.
Having completed a doctorate in particle physics from Berkeley long before he became a filmmaker,...
- 3/6/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Stakes come no higher than in Particle Fever, a dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws — or whether, as Princeton physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed theorizes, our universe is one of an infinite set of other universes defined by a chaotic mash-up of unstable, inexplicable, random conditions. (The final verdict, unsurprisingly: still out!)
The film follows the first proton-smashing experiments conducted in Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider; through compelling interviews with physics theorists and experimentalists, and effervescent science animation from MK12, director Mark Levinson — himself the holder of a doctorate in theoretical particle physics — makes the search for t...
The film follows the first proton-smashing experiments conducted in Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider; through compelling interviews with physics theorists and experimentalists, and effervescent science animation from MK12, director Mark Levinson — himself the holder of a doctorate in theoretical particle physics — makes the search for t...
- 3/5/2014
- Village Voice
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