Nathan Readioff's design uses existing Lego pieces to
replicate all four elements of the LHC -- known as ATLAS, ALICE,
CMS and LHCb -- and uses cutaway walls to reveal all of the
major subsystems.
He also wrote step-by-step guides to making the miniatures and
has now submitted his models to the Lego Ideas website, where
ideas from members of the public that get more than 10,000 votes
are considered by Lego for future production.
"I have always been a Lego fan," Readioff said in a statement
from Liverpool University, where he is in the third year of his
PhD. "I had in mind Lego's basic principles of encouraging
imagination and play through building bricks."
The LHC in Geneva allows scientists to test the predictions of
different theories of physics. Its 27 kilometer (16 mile) ring
is buried 100 meters below the French and Swiss countryside.
To see footage of Readioff's model, go to:
https://stream.liv.ac.uk/ndcbkwbt
(Reporting by Kate Kelland; editing by John Stonestreet and
Gareth Jones)
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