Build Your Own Large Hadron Collider
Posted in: UncategorizedThe strongest of forces have long separated particle physics and pop-up books. Now these two fascinating worlds collide in Voyage to the Heart of Matter (Papadakis). Thanks to Galleycat, our bookish brother blog, for tipping us off to the imminent second edition of this pop-up tale of CERN’s quest to understand the birth of the universe. The book came about through a unique—and painstaking—collaboration between CERN and authors Emma Sanders and Anton Radevsky, the paper artist whose name you might recognize from his pop-up journey through the history of architecture. After the first edition of Voyage found an audience ravenous for subatomic smashing, the publisher added new splashes of color, including metallic silver backgrounds, and tightened up the layout, making it a little easier to complete the book’s bonus project: constructing one’s very own mini particle detector. Readers who become frustrated assembling the cardboard bits are reminded that the real thing took 25 years to build. The geeks at WIRED got their hands on a copy of the book and put together the below video.
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