Dialogue: Join us for a post-screening panel discussion following the 6pm screening on Monday, April 28 with UI physics faculty members Yasar Onel, Jane Nachtman, Vincent Rodgers, Philip Kaaret, and Usha Mallik.

"Particle Fever succeeds on every level." Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

"That rare, exhilarating science doc that's neither dumbed down nor drabbed up." - Time Out New York

"Smashingly captivating!" - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

PARTICLE FEVER gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough—as it happened. The film follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit to understand why we exist?