If the real one threatening to punch all manner of holes through the world was bad enough, imagine how much damage this Lego scale replica could do? Like the actual collider, probably nothing, but try telling all the tiny Lego conspiracy theorists that.
Obviously, this isn’t the whole collider (can you tell?). It’s just the ATLAS section, which monitors high-energy proton collisions for, well, science.
The model is the work of Sasha Mehlhase, a student at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 81 hours (48 on the 3D model and 33 clicking blocks together), spread over a few weeks and 9500 Lego pieces went into it. At 1/50th the size of CERN’s, it won’t be discovering the Higgs-Boson any time soon, but it should get a few Lego men physicists super-keen about discovering the origins of the universe, now that they finally have the technology.
[University Post, via Geekologie]
Images: Sasha Mehlhase
Lillee
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 4:16 PMHiggs Lego Bosun piece? The piece exists in theory but Boone has ever proved on exists, and it holds all Lego together and gives them mass
Scoon
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 4:20 PM“Like the actual collider, probably nothing…”
Didn’t the just recently announce a discovery which will be confirmed sometime next year?
Scubloke
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 9:11 AMRead the story, the quote refers to damage, not discoveries.