
This is a 1:50 scale
replica of the
Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector recreated out of 9,500 LEGO pieces. 9,500 LEGO pieces
that cost $2,590. That's 27-cents apiece! That's way too f***ing much!
[The piece was built by] 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.
No word if this mini Large Hadron Collider will be powerful enough to malfunction and create a black hole large enough to swallow a dog, but Chloe kind of deserves it after last post's whole nipple fiasco. "Woof." Bullshit you thought it was a dried apricot -- YOU'RE A LIAR!
Hit the jump for several more shots including some of the build.
from Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/12/physics-are-fun-large-hadron-collider-ma.php