Tired of reading traditional media stories about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN preparing to switch on Sept. 10, but still crave more information about arguably the biggest science venture in decades?
No problem.
You can get a fresh, Millennial perspective on the ramp up of the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator at http://www.lhcscience.org/journalists/.
The Web site showcases short documentaries about the LHC made by six groups of American teens from Utah, Texas, New York, Minnesot,a and Florida who spent a week at CERN in April capturing the excitement and long hours that come with preparing to revolutionize particle physics. More than 10,000 people from 80 countries worked during the last two decades to design, build, and test the LHC.
The documentaries aim to make the science accessible to youth through interviews with physicists, a glimpse at CERN's open house days, and footage of the cathedral-sized machinery and four underground caverns need to house six experiments. The United States plays a strong role in the two largest, general-purpose detector experiments, CMS and ATLAS.
The US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation funded the documentaries.
