Pop-up physics

摘要

Finally up and running after a 14-month repair job, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is the most complex experiment in the world and took thousands of physicists well over a decade to assemble. So it is perhaps to inspire empathy that an LHC pop-up book asks its readers to spend a few minutes fumbling with pieces of paper that (eventually) fold into a model of the giant ATLAS detector, one of four detectors at the collider.