"The Time Machine" Trailer

Just imagine 10,000 scientists from 85 different countries who for the past 14 years have been preparing a project that cost more than 6 billion dollars. Now imagine that this project is quite simply the largest machine ever built by man for the most ambitious scientific experiment of all time. In a room cooled to -271°C, this machine causes protons to collide, generating temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun. Researchers hope to recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang in an attempt to discover new particles and perhaps revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Is this just a pipe dream? Are they just dangerous sorcerer's apprentices? Largest, smallest, hottest, coldest… should we be worried by these superlatives? And what if the men behind this Tower of Babel lost control of their machine? A popular rumour is circulating: these physicists might accidentally create a black hole that would swallow up the Earth. In the USA there was even an attempt to have the courts prevent CERN from switching the machine on.

The LHC accelerator was inaugurated in Geneva on 21 October 2008 in the presence of around 40 heads of State and was stopped shortly afterwards because of a technical problem.

This documentary focuses on these crucial few months around the launch of the machine. The enthusiasm of the inauguration and the deception of the accident that forced to stop it. It describes the scientific mysteries that Man is trying to shed light on and the scale of the risks that this experiment is exposing us all to.

An exciting human story in which physics questions the meaning of life as never before.