The Atom Smashers
Monica Long Ross, Clayton Brown
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73 min.
The Atom Smashers chronicles the international competition to find a
subatomic particle so important it's been called "the god particle." Top US
physicists search for it using the Tevatron, a cantankerous 40-year old
machine four miles long buried beneath the Illinois prairie. They're close
to making the discovery of a lifetime. But a new, more powerful European
machine is poised to come online soon, and when US science budgets are
slashed, Fermilab scientists learn that the Tevatron will close just as
Europe's machine is scheduled to activate. This fantastic documentary is
equal parts science and human drama, watching its amiable characters work
and live in and out of the laboratory, examining the intersection between
science, politics and culture on an international scale.
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a bit more drama would have been good, and more explanation of the Higgs boson particle
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From the blog
This time it's for real
Sorry to those of you that I directed to the tumblr blog. That didn't work out so well. So, here at last, is the REAL new blog. Come visit http://splitfocus.wordpress.com/. As my last post indicated, we're deep in production (now actually nearing the end) in our second film, called The Experiment, we've got a new office, and we're moving forward on a new film Fermilab has hired us to make to promote parts of their enormous facility not involved with the search for the Higgs boson. Really cool stuff like a dark energy camera, neutrino oscillations, and the mysterious "Project X."
So, with all that going on, The Atom Smashers and this blog has taken something of a back seat. And I was sitting here thinking of how to address this, I suddenly realized it would make perfect sense to close the book on this blog and open another --- not just based on The Experiment, but about everything: our new film, the Fermilab project, The Atom Smashers' continued success, developments in the sciences, documentary filmmaking, teaching young filmmakers, co-running a non-profit arts group with an interesting cast of characters, a little bit of politics, a good chunk of media, and some random thoughts... everything.
I think you'll like it. So bookmark it and I'll see you over there!
Best,
Clayton
So, with all that going on, The Atom Smashers and this blog has taken something of a back seat. And I was sitting here thinking of how to address this, I suddenly realized it would make perfect sense to close the book on this blog and open another --- not just based on The Experiment, but about everything: our new film, the Fermilab project, The Atom Smashers' continued success, developments in the sciences, documentary filmmaking, teaching young filmmakers, co-running a non-profit arts group with an interesting cast of characters, a little bit of politics, a good chunk of media, and some random thoughts... everything.
I think you'll like it. So bookmark it and I'll see you over there!
Best,
Clayton
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