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."

Comments

Not the whole LHC

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Only way to prove the existence..

[formfeed]

.. of the predicted 1x1 block is to let lots of legos collide and look at the resulting blocks.

Re:Don't tell me...

[yotto]

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

Excellent idea in the article

[Announcer]

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!

Re:Correction

[Dogtanian]

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

Was I the only person who read the summary and thought "even at 1:50 scale, that's going to be damn massive" (couldn't remember the exact size, but I knew it was big- having checked, the circumference of the whole thing is 27km, or around 16 miles)?

Then pretty quickly twigged that they probably hadn't built the whole thing, checked the article, and was right.

This is valuable research

[vk2sky]

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.

Re:Don't tell me...

[Adriax]

Nah, tomorrow starts the search for the so called god brick. The elusive brick thought to bind all other bricks together.

Re:Don't tell me...

[Ihmhi]

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.