Decay: Zombies in the Cern

That the LHC at CERN will cause the end of the world should be widely known, unless the Maya prediction is more correct. A group of physics graduate students have made a horror film in which employees at the nuclear research center turn into zombies after a particle collision goes wrong at the LHC. "The greatest discovery in physics could be our last," is the message of the horror film Decayplaying at the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva.

It has long been known that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will initiate the end of the world: black holes will open up in the particle accelerator and devour everything. It is only thanks to the lack of imagination of lawyers that the unfortunate activity at Cern in Geneva was not stopped. The fact that the world is still standing after three years of operation at the LHC borders on a miracle. Scientists looked for the Higgs boson there - and woke something up: zombies! In Cern! No wonder something had to go fundamentally wrong in the search for an object called a God Particle. Actually, the particle is not called God Particle, but Goddamn Particle - and accordingly, zombies in Cern are by no means heavenly beings.

They are awakened by a particle collision in the search for the Higgs boson. Something goes wrong. The technicians in the tunnel are hit with beams, and suddenly the catacombs under the Cern are crawling with zombies. “The greatest discovery in physics could be our last,” is the message from Decay. A film - not only - for physicists by physicists: The zombie film was shot by doctoral students at Cern, and at CERN - even if, as the physicist blog Quantum Diaries notes, not at the original location: the tunnels of the LHC would " continually used for science rather than cinematography».

Cern, however, neither approved nor endorsed the film, the filmmakers say. Luke Thompson, director and author, had the idea for the film in early 2010. The reason was a joke that the vaults under Cern were ideal for a zombie film. After all, the Quantum Diaries author felt the need to clarify: "The Higgs boson obviously can't turn people into zombies" - not only for biological reasons, but also because it decays immediately after a collision and never breaks the LHC leaves. In any case, the LHC cannot be operated when people are in the tunnel.

"If any of the LHC collisions could create zombies, then the world would be full of zombies created when ultra-high energy cosmic rays hit the atmosphere." The approximately 75-minute film, which incidentally was not shot with film cameras but with digital single-lens reflex cameras, is scheduled to premiere in Manchester at the end of November. According to the filmmakers, the work will be under a Creative Commons license and will be available online free of charge. The idea is quite funny, even if one would think of a dimensional portal or something similar with a facility like the LHC. But that's what counts.

DECAY Official Trailer (2012) - The LHC Zombie Movie