Thursday, December 29, 2011

LEGO Large Hadron Collider is impressive

LEGO Large Hadron Collider is impressive

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, and is one incredible machine. Designed to test various predictions of physics, the LHC was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from all over the world. Well, a physicist named Sascha Mehlhase decided to undertake the task of recreating the LHC all by himself - by using LEGO bricks. Done in his spare time, the LEGO LHC was created to a 1:50 scale and makes use of over 9,500 different pieces. It took a total of 33 hours to build – after he spent 48 hours on the 3D model to base it on.

Ubergizmo, LEGO Large Hadron Collider is impressive