{"id":12072,"date":"2014-07-07T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:27:57","slug":"particle-fever-on-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/particle-fever-on-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Particle Fever on iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/particle-fever\/id869502900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mza_592945757694281252.227x227-75.jpg\" alt=\"mza_592945757694281252.227x227-75\" width=\"151\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12073\" \/><\/a> The documentary film <a href=\"http:\/\/particlefever.com\/\">Particle Fever<\/a>, directed by Mark Levinson and produced by physicist David Kaplan, opened a while back and has been playing on and off in various big cities. But it&#8217;s still been out of reach for many people who don&#8217;t happen to be lucky enough to live near a theater enlightened enough to play it. No more!<\/p>\n<p>The movie has <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/particle-fever\/id869502900\">just been released on iTunes<\/a>, so now almost everyone can watch it from the comfort of their own computer. And watch it you should &#8212; it&#8217;s a fascinating and enlightening glimpse into the world of modern particle physics, focusing on the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson. That&#8217;s not just my bias talking, either &#8212; the film is rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/particle_fever\/\">95% &#8220;fresh&#8221; on RottenTomatoes.com<\/a>, which represents an amazingly strong critical consensus. (Full disclosure: I&#8217;m not in it, and I had nothing to do with making it.) <\/p>\n<p>Huge kudos to Mark (who went to grad school in physics before becoming a filmmaker) and David (who did a brief stint as an undergraduate film major before switching to physics) for pulling this off. It&#8217;s great for the public appreciation of science, but it&#8217;s also just an extremely enjoyable movie, no matter what your background is. Watch it with a friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary film Particle Fever, directed by Mark Levinson and produced by physicist David Kaplan, opened a while back and has been playing on and off in various big cities. But it&#8217;s still been out of reach for many people who don&#8217;t happen to be lucky enough to live near a theater enlightened enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12075,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}