OFFICIAL SELECTION |
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| Vedere la Scienza Milan | 31 March - 6 April | festival website | |
| Chicago Underground Film Festival | 29 Oct - 2 November | festival website |
IN COMPETITION |
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| Vancouver International Film Festival | 25 Sept - 10 October | festival website | screening info and tickets |
| Pariscience | 8-12 October | festival website | screening info pending |
| Bergen International Film Festival | 15-22 October | festival website | screening info pending |
| Austin Film Festival | 16-23 October | festival website | screening info pending |
"Finding this Higgs particle "will help scientists figure out why the universe is made of something instead of nothing, why there are atoms, people, planets, stars and galaxies. But it also will do much more than that. It will open a door to a hidden world of physics, where scientists hope to find unimagined wonders that will make relativity and quantum mechanics seem like Tinker Toys."
- Ronald Kotulak, Chicago Tribune
The Atom Smashers chronicles the search for the Higgs boson: a yet-undiscovered subatomic particle that could explain how matter – and, therefore, life – can exist.
To find this "god particle," top physicists at Fermilab use the Tevatron, a four-mile-long, forty-year-old particle accelerator buried beneath the Illinois prairie. However, a new, more powerful accelerator at Europe's CERN laboratory looms on the horizon...
Part science, part international competition, and part human drama, The Atom Smashers watches its captivating characters in and out of the laboratory as they race along the intersections of politics, culture, and the possibility of the discovery of a lifetime.
Two continents, two accelerators, one particle - who will find it?