Particle Fever

Particle Fever (2013)

With one switch, everything changes.

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time - or perhaps their greatest failure.

Date of release
2013-06-14
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (254)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Mark Levinson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Switzerland
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Stephen Hawking Medal For Science Communication

Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHC's results. The film begins in 2008 with the first firing of the LHC and concludes in 2012 with the successful identification of the Higgs boson.

Production

The film was shot over a period of seven years. It was directed by Mark Levinson, a former theoretical physicist with a doctorate from UC-Berkeley. Levinson produced the film along with David Kaplan, a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University and producers Andrea Miller, Carla Solomon and Wendy Sax.

The film premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest on July 14, 2013.

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