BBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. An enigmatic bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that could change our understanding of how the universe works.
Direction
Turns physics anxiety into genuine narrative suspense.
Production
Access to CERN's underground cathedral is genuinely jaw-dropping.
Director
Serena Davies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CERN's 2012 Higgs boson discovery made particle physics briefly mainstream; this film captures the desperate hunger to recapture that magic.
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