Particle Fever By Mark Wilkinson

Particle Fever directed by Mark Levinson, is a documentary about a scientific experiment which took almost twenty years to complete. Although it involved ten thousand engineers from one hundred different countries, it depicts the experiences of just a few scientists. In the film, each scientist describes the journey that they went through in order to complete the complicated project. Costing up to ten billion dollars, it was one of the world’s most expensive science experiments. In addition, it caused quite a bit of controversy. Many people believed that the experiment would destroy the earth by creating a black hole. Since there was no guarantee that it would work, some felt that it was a waste of money. Although scientists were unsure about what they would discover, they hoped that they would be able figure out many
The Higgs was believed to be responsible for all physical reality, and finding it was important, because it would allow scientists to understand the basic nature of the universe. The Standard Model is a scientific theory that describes the different forces of the universe and how particles interact with one another. This is the theory that predicted the Higgs Boson. According to this theory, the Higgs is a particle which is able to give another one its mass. The Higgs Boson is associated with the Higgs field, an electric field that transmits mass to anything that travels through it. Peter Higgs was a British physicist who discovered the particle in 1964. His theory stated that there was an energy field that all particles in the universe interacted with. It also explained that size of the particle effected the interaction. For example, the bigger particles interacted more with the field, while the smaller particles interacted