ImaginebeingabletowatchasEdisonturnedonthefirstlightbulb,orasFranklinreceivedhisfirstjoltofelectricity.
Forthefirsttime,afilmgivesaudiencesafrontrowseattoasignificantandinspiringscientificbreakthroughasithappens.ParticleFeverfollowssixbrilliantscientistsduringthelaunchoftheLargeHadronCollider,markingthestart-upofthebiggestandmostexpensiveexperimentinthehistoryoftheplanet,pushingtheedgeofhumaninnovation.
Astheyseektounravelthemysteriesoftheuniverse,10,000scientistsfromover100countriesjoinedforcesinpursuitofasinglegoal:torecreateconditionsthatexistedjustmomentsaftertheBigBangandfindtheHiggsboson,potentiallyexplainingtheoriginofallmatter.Butourheroesconfrontanevenbiggerchallenge:havewereachedourlimitinunderstandingwhyweexist?
DirectedbyMarkLevinson,aphysicistturnedfilmmaker,fromtheinspirationandinitiativeofproducerDavidKaplanandmasterfullyeditedbyWalterMurch(ApocalypseNow,TheEnglishPatient,TheGodfathertrilogy),ParticleFeverisacelebrationofdiscovery,revealingtheveryhumanstoriesbehindthisepicmachine.
