Event

Particle Fever


Date:	Sunday March 8th, 2015
Time:	2:30
Place:	Bricker Academic, Rm BA101, Laurier, Waterloo
Topic:	Movie: Particle Fever

Celebrate International Women's Day with an afternoon of film, food, fun and physics. Join us for a free screening of the award-winning documentary Particle Fever about the hunt for the Higgs boson - the biggest experiment ever built. Chat with our panel of scientists and experts after the screening, about science, gender and film. Continue the conversation during the post-event reception.

Free parking is available on campus. Parking information can be found here. A campus map is available here.

About Particle Fever "Profoundly cool" - Andrew O'Hehir/Salon "Smashingly Captivating" - Kenneth Turan/Los Angeles Times Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.

For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a 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 in understanding why we exist?

Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.