Voyage to the Heart Of Matter

24 November 2010

One of the most significant technological wonders of the modern world leaps from the page in 3D pop­up.

In this unique collaboration between CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky, 7000 tonnes of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips leap from the page in miniature pop­up, to tell the story of CERN's quest to understand the birth of the universe. Protons, travelling at nearly the speed of light, collide within the heart of the ATLAS detector, sending out showers of debris to recreate 40 million times a second the conditions that existed millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the event that set our universe in motion. Now all ages can join the ATLAS experiment on this fascinating journey to the beginnings of the universe in this astonishing pop­up book.

ANTON RADEVSKY is a pop­up engineer and illustrator and lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. His previous books include The Modern Architecture Pop­Up Book, The Pop­Up Book Of Space Craft and The Wild West Pop­Up Book.

EMMA SANDERS is the head of Microcosm, CERN's museum of particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland 

VOYAGE TO THE HEART OF MATTER
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN
Anton Radevsky & Emma Sanders
Papadakis Publisher, London
ISBN 978-1906506-12-4 £25
www.papadakis.net

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