And there he was: the one and only Higgs. Aka professor Peter W. Higgs, aka the titular hero of our recently premiered documentary film, aka the namesake of the H-mechanism, H-field and H-boson – aka the magic triangle in particle physics – aka the special guest at the last IDFA-screening of our H-film.
From left to right: Prof. Peter W. Higgs, Jonny Higgs, Hannie vd Bergh and Jan van den Berg
The first screenings will take place at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA):
- Friday 20 November at 20.45 pm
(Première) in hall 9 of cinema Pathé de Munt, Vijzelstraat 15, Amsterdam.
- Sunday 22 november at 10.00 am
in hall 5 of cinema Pathé Tuschinski, Reguliersbreestraat 26-34, Amsterdam.
- Thursday 26 november at 19.45 pm
in hall 9 of cinema Pathé de Munt, Vijzelstraat 15, Amsterdam*.
- Thursday 4 february 2010, screening on television in Holland Doc.
* On Thursday 26 November there will be a Q&A with the two directors, directly after the screening of the film; in the presence of professor Peter Higgs (Edinburgh). (more…)
Shots taken from the watertower at the Cern (Meyrin) site.
In the red circle: The Globe (Cern’s press centre and exhibition space)
27 km long tube
9.300 magnets inside
10 080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen
the world’s largest fridge (-271.3°C (1.9 K)), even colder than outer space
100 000 times hotter than the heart of the Sun (when two beams of protons collide)
At full power, trillions of protons will race around the LHC accelerator ring 11 245 times a second, travelling at 99.99% the speed of light.
Stan Bentvelsen about the size and the - nearly impossible to imagine - amount of data to be recorded by the Atlas experiment. (more…)
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