The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego 80
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."
Don't tell me... (Score:1, Informative)
and tomorrow he starts building his girlfriend.
Not the whole LHC (Score:4, Informative)
The ATLAS module is not the only module on the LHC but yes still impressive.
Correction (Score:3, Informative)
It's not the whole LHC - it's the detector part.
Re:Don't tell me... (Score:5, Informative)
I hope his wife doesn't get mad! /I know, shame on me for Ring TFA.
Re:Actually it isn't the WHOLE thing (Score:4, 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.