Forgive me for stating the obvious, but;
isn't it ironic that whilst McLaren and Red Bull squabble over the services of
Aerodynamicist DanFallows and thee
"Gawdfather 'O Aerodynamics" Adrian Newey feverishly works away to
attempt pulling back the lost deficiencies of his RB10, the title above's
thought's sprang into mind when viewing a very enjoyable movie about science no
less!
The movie in Questione is called Particle Fever
and documents the trials 'N tribulations of the Large
Hadron Collider, more commonly known as the LHC which is buried underground
near Geneva, Switzerland.
The LHC is the world's largest Particle
accelerator collider, a staggering 27+ kilometers (17-mile) looped ring encapsulating
numerous seven-ton liquid cooled magnets utilized to focus protons to race
around in opposite directions before smashing into each other in order to
hopefully duplicate the Big Bang theory!
The movie is a brilliant production which not
only focuses upon the scientific side, but the human side - chronicling just a
handful of personalities involved in the mammoth project which had 10,000
participants, along with the world's largest linked computer system for data
analysis at 170-stations in 36-countries.
As the scientists, which are broken into two
main groups, the Theorist's and the Experimentalist's are keen to see if they
can confirm the Higgs particle, referred as the Higgs boson, a theoretical
"Dark" mass hypotheses a half century ago!
The documentary film runs 99mins and was
released on March 5, 2014 and I highly recommend seeing it, since after all,
without science, and more notably mathematics, as there's several scenes of lab
coated Physicists smacking chalk upon blackboard writing elaborate equations, we
wouldn't have today's modern era Formula 1 or motor racing in general!
As I learned a new science term from the movie,
known as GeV, which is a scientific measurement of electron volts, as I won't
try explaining I-T any further! Just look it up if you're curious.
And it's pretty
funny that just after I finished scribblin' this Friday morning, and a scant
day and a-half after seeing the movie (Wed night) that I ran across the
following LA Times article...
