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Man Creates ATLAS Detector From Lego Bricks

Posted by Unknown on from the type-thirteen-planet dept.

First time accepted submitter Vicsun writes "It won't be smashing hadrons at speeds that are fractions of the speed of light, but it will still be a hell of a lot of fun, and could be in your hands soon. A post-doc at the Niels Bohr Institute, in Copenhagen, has recreated the ATLAS detector in Lego bricks, and is now trying to transform his design into an official LEGO product."

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  1. Atlas detector? by damnbunni · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a freakin' 100 ton assault 'mech.

    It's not particularly hard to detect.

  2. Currently at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory by crgrace · · Score: 4, Informative

    This Lego creation is really amazing in person. The guy did a stellar job. It's permanently located in the lobby of building 50 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (right next to the cigar box where Glenn Seaborg put the first ever sample of Plutonium). If you go on a tour there or visit an Open House, you can see it for yourself. Here's a site with a lot more details about its construction: http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~sdube/lego.html

  3. Worthless! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It won't be smashing protons and neutrons at speeds approaching the speed of light"

    THEN WHAT GOOD IS IT????

    It's completely useless if it doesn't help me build my death ray!

    Um, I mean my "green energy projector." At least that's what my subsidy application says...