Art: Opening of Colliderscope

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20/01-10 kl. 11:11 Culture / Science / Art / LHC

A new light sculpture transmits live signals from the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland to Nils Bohr Institute's facade on Blegdamsvej. Here, you can see pictures from the opening event which took place last week.

Hundreds of LED bulbs on the outside of Nils Bohr Institute (NBI) in Blegdamsvej will transmit live signals from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider physics experiment in CERN, Switzerland.

See a longer article about the colliderscope here.

The new art installation, called NBI Colliderscope, is the work of artists Christian Skeel and Morten Skriver, in collaboration with Niels Bohr researchers Clive Ellegaard and Troels C. Petersen. It symbolises the close ties between NBI and the CERN project. The creators also hope to raise interest in the experiment and in the natural sciences in general

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