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The Infinity Puzzle

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Physicist and author Frank Close tells the story of the scientific breakthroughs 40 yeas ago that led to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider. Part of Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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We are living in a Golden Age of physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists – an American, a Dutchman and an Englishman – made breakthroughs that inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: a 27 kilometre-long machine that has already cost ten billion dollars, taken 20 years to build, and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. Eminent physicist and award-winning author Professor Frank Close draws upon his close friendships with those involved to tell the inside story of those 40 years of research, breakthrough and endeavour. .

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