Particle Fever

Particle Fever

With one switch, everything changes.

2013 · 99 min · ★ 7.1 · Documentary

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.

Directed by Mark Levinson · Written by Martin Aleksa

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