Atlas detector - complete it yourself, but try and take less than 25 years...
As a massive physics and papercraft geek, this announcement had me swooning: an LHC pop-up book. Entitled Voyage to the Heart of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN, it explores through paper engineering the motivation, construction and operation of part of the world's biggest experiment.
Not just mega-science, but mega-engineering
To quote the press release,
"In this unique collaboration between ATLAS and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky, 7000 tonnes of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips leap from the page in miniature pop-up, to tell the story of CERN’s quest to understand the birth of the universe."
I'm really excited by the immediacy and spatial understanding that comes from the use of physical models to represent concepts, and a pop-up book is a fantastically portable way of bringing to the grubby paws of the masses.
The book goes back to the big bang to explain the experiment's motivations
I've always adored pop-up books. Needless to say, I'm drooling over this one.
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