Time lapse video of ATLAS cavern during construction.
This shows the cavern in which the ATLAS experiment is being assembled. These images start in October 2003 and end in August 2008. Roughly five years summarised in five minutes! The LHC and ATLAS are due to turn on in September 2008.
Facts:
- 25m diameter, 46m length, weight 7000tonnes
- a total of 100 million channels, connected with 3000 km of cables
the inner detector is a 80 megapixel digital camera with an area of 1.7m2
- floor of the cavern moves about 0.5 mm upwards each year
- data will be recorded at 320MB/s, 200000 times less than the full amount produced
- combined effort of 164 institutions from 35 countries
Thank you to the ATLAS Eye for taking all those images. car hire The music is Maurice Ravel's Bolero and taken from you tube.
In the process of making this I learnt a lot about ffmpeg and the power of Sed, summarised in VideoEncoding.
You can download the original video from: one or two. You will need Xvid. Get VLC if you struggle to play it.
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Trying to keep track on who links here, consider it the digital version of newspaper cuttings.
I posted it on Gordan Watts' blog as a comment
Shawne Workman from SLAC today posted it here
Andreas Herten of physikBlog mentions the video here.
The BBC mentions me on the same page as Brian Cox (at the very bottom). Big bang machine time lapse video.
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