A short documentary about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Topics include the widely-spread rumors that the LHC could produce catastrophic black holes, the multinational contributions to the LHC and its detector experiments, as well as efforts by scientists, past and present, to communicate the LHC and other complex experiments to the public.

Features interviews with leading physicists and popular science experts.

(duration: 16 minutes)

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