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Horizon: CERN

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Scientists making measurements with a machine half a mile in circumference... engineers designing another similar machine five miles in circumference: this is high-energy physics at the European Council for Nuclear Research, CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland.
CERN produces nothing but spends £30 million a year investigating the ingredients of the nucleus, looking at particles only a ten-millionth of a millionth of an inch in diameter. CERN... the very big in pursuit of the very small.
Tonight's film looks at the landscape of CERN and its physicists and concludes that the day of the gigantic act of faith is not yet over.
(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Producer:
Denis Postle
Source: Radio Times

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