The Peace Particle

Science for peace in a divided world, The Peace Particle tells the human stories behind mankind's biggest experiment and the unintended consequences of new discoveries. After the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, many scientists vowed to never use their knowledge for war again. Those scientists founded CERN, building the world's largest machine in search of the universe's smallest particles. Critics feared CERN would destroy the earth with a black hole - but it's their IT department that really blew up the world as we know it, by creating the World Wide Web. With rare access to the revolutionary Large Hadron Collider and Nobel winning scientists, The Peace Particle celebrates CERN as they face their biggest challenge since founding in 1954: the threat of another world war. This is an urgent and uplifting film that sets out to show just how much is possible when scientists reject nationalism and work together. The Peace Particle provides a vital perspective today, as wars across the world undermine open science and peaceful collaboration.