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The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego
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."
The ATLAS module is not the only module on the LHC but yes still impressive.
.. of the predicted 1x1 block is to let lots of legos collide and look at the resulting blocks.
It's not the whole LHC - it's the detector part.
I hope his wife doesn't get mad! /I know, shame on me for Ring TFA.
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The pictures in TFA show that he (and his friends and poor wife) show that he just built the detectors.
While very impressive, he (obviously) didn't build the complete ring. Even at 1:50 scale it would be a mile in circumference. Now that's a lot of LEGOs!
The author suggests that the Lego company should produce models of real-world scientific devices of all levels of complexity, from simple machines, to Tesla coils, etc, all the way up to this. (No, not WORKING Tesla coils!)
I think this is an idea that is well worth pursuing. Granted, it probably won't outsell "Star Wars" toys any time soon, but for one thing, the GEEK FACTOR is off the scale! I think there are plenty of kids (and parents too) who would definitely buy such Lego sets! I'd even be interested, myself... and I'm pushing 50!
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CNCs made of LEGOs are much cooler. Especially this one.
Considering the legos required to build this model cost $2,600, I doubt Lego would be selling too many of these sets. This also gives a good idea of just how overpriced these little chunks of plastic are.
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The Higgs Boson is like that oddball tiny LEGO piece that always finds its way down to the bottom of the tub and wedges itself inside another piece.
Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.
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Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.
Oh sure, it's all fun and games until he accidentally creates a tiny square black hole and then we are all screwed!
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If it genuinely cost that much it would be due to him buying more sets than he needed to get the appropriate pieces. If Lego made a set that wouldn't be required. They obviously have capability to create the bricks he used already. They'd just have to include the right blocks so I'd get it would be in the $100 to $200 range.
Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.
Oh sure, it's all fun and games until he accidentally creates a tiny square black hole and then we are all screwed!
They already occur naturally due to a quirk in quantum mechanics known as "Brickbuilder's Box". Whenever you search for a piece that you need in a bin full of bricks, it will always be where you cannot find it even though you swear you saw it just a second ago. That is because it is in square black hole. When you no longer need the brick, the black hole dissipates and the brick returns.
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