© Francis Giacobetti

The La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival, in collaboration with CERN and HEPHY, the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presents the exhibition

The CODE of the universe

Discussing research at the edge of the Big Bang:

Jochen Schieck
Director Institut Für Hochenergiephysik, ÖAW

Manfred Krammer
Leiter der Abteilung Experimentalphysik, CERN

Welcome: Bürgermeisterin Carmen Jeitler-Cincelli
Moderation: Festivaldirektor Lois Lammerhuber

Admission is free

About the exhibition

In 2017, Lois Lammerhuber was invited by CERN in Geneva to develop a concept for the communication and promotion of the successor project to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will cease operations in 2040. With a circumference of 27 km, the LHC is the world’s largest particle accelerator and Europe’s most ambitious and successful research project. The new particle accelerator, the Future Circular Collider (FCC), will be built with a circumference of around 100 km and up to 400 metres below ground in the French-Swiss border area around Geneva. This will enable measurements of the highest precision to be taken in order to investigate all known particles of the Standard Model in detail.

Not only was the World Wide Web developed at CERN by Timm Berners-Lee for ‘internal’ communication among the scientific community working there, but the matter-antimatter fundamentals of all imaging techniques in medicine (MRI, MRT) were also discovered. Above all, however, the ‘Higgs particle’ predicted by François Englert and Peter Higgs was detected, completing the Standard Model of elementary particle physics. Englert and Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical development of the Higgs mechanism.

The project is called ‘Code of the Universe’ and is an exhibition that uses 40 images on 20 light steles to explain the fundamentals of physics in an easily understandable way and show where research at the edge of the Big Bang could lead us.

CERN is making this travelling exhibition (which has already been shown in Brussels, Grenoble, Annecy, Stuttgart, Trieste, Genoa, Zurich, Munich, Bratislava, Karlsruhe, Geneva, Como, Vienna, Freiburg and Budapest) available free of charge to the La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival. codeoftheuniverse.eu/en