The Spirit of Enquiry
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CERN is the largest gathering of knowledge in the history of mankind, larger even than the Apollo moon missions. Thousands of scientists are lowering hundreds of tonnes of equipment into a deep underground cavern in order to examine almost infinitely tiny fragments of atoms. ‘When I made the final prints of the Large Hadron Collider, they resembled, cupolas, crop circles or Tibetan mandalas.’ (SN)
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Film details
- Productieland
- United Kingdom
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2009
- Medium/Formaat
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- Première status
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- Director
- Simon Norfolk