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The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego

Posted by Soulskill on from the lego-black-hole-soon-to-destroy-earth dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Large Hadron Collider has many fans, and one of its biggest is Sasha Mehlhase, a physicist from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Mehlhase has decided to help promote the LHC to students by taking the time to recreate a 1:50 scale model of it using Lego bricks. In total he spent 81 hours creating it, which was split between 48 hours of designing the model on his laptop, and a further 33 hours putting it together."

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  1. Don't tell me... by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Informative

    and tomorrow he starts building his girlfriend.

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    1. Re:Don't tell me... by yotto · · Score: 4, Informative

      I hope his wife doesn't get mad! /I know, shame on me for Ring TFA.

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  2. Not the whole LHC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ATLAS module is not the only module on the LHC but yes still impressive.

  3. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not the whole LHC - it's the detector part.

  4. Re:Actually it isn't the WHOLE thing by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even at 1:50 scale it would be a mile in circumference.

    Actually the LHC has a 27km circumference which, at 1:50 scale, would become a 540m circumference which is only about a third of a mile.