Physicist creates scale model of Large Hadron Collider's particle detector - out of 9,500 Lego [View all]

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By ROB WAUGH
Last updated at 8:28 PM on 30th December 2011
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A physicist at Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute has recreated one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego - and the replica machine is to scale with the tiny Lego engineers that walk through its tunnels.

Sacha Melhase used 9,500 pieces of Lego to build the model - a task which took him 35 hours.The Niels Bohr Institute covered his 2,000 Euro brick bill - hoping that Mehlhase's work would inspire interest in high-energy physics.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2080416/Physicist-creates-scale-model-Large-Hadron-Colliders-particle-detector--9-500-bits-Lego.html

He needs to really do it, with a full scaled down ring!