NBI Colliderscope

A light-artwork on the front of The Niels Bohr Institute is directly connected with the world's largest physics experiment currently taking place at CERN outside Geneva in Switzerland.
The large experiment takes place in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a circular 27 km long underground magnetic tunnel smashing protons against each other with extreme force. This gives conditions similar to those that prevailed in our Universe shortly after Big Bang, and new particles can be produced in collisions. What you see on the front face of the Institute is a transmission of particle collision as they are seen by one of the accelerator's four detectors. The signal is reproduced with a broad spectrum of tones and varied impact strength as if the accelerator was a kind of giant musical instrument. Maybe you can see the work as a kind of visual translation of the music that sounded at the birth of the Universe. The artwork is created by the artists Christian Skeel and Morten Skriver in collaboration with physicists Clive Ellegaard and Troels C. Petersen. NBI Colliderscope is a satellite exhibition from Esbjerg Kunstmuseum.

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• LHC
• TRT detector
• ATLAS
• CERN
• Niels Bohr Institute
• Skeel & Skriver
• Clive Ellegaard
• Troels C. Petersen