• Director(s):

    ANDRIEU (MICHEL)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ADR PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2002

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD

This ultimate object of desire...the Higgs boson.

Far below the earth's surface, machines are sending elementary particles along circular passages as long as the Channel Tunnel at something close to the speed of light so that scientists can record what happens when these highly accelerated particles collide with others, and study the outcomes of these subatomic encounters.
They are looking for signs of the smallest building block of all, the last remaining particle in the Standard Model of the universe whose existence has yet to be proved, the key to the beginning and end of matter. Until such time as they or other scientists identify an even smaller particle, this ultimate object of desire is Higgs boson, whose presence may account for the real-world phenomena of gravity, form and speed.