The constant noise is from the huge fans housed within the CMS experiment itself which blow the protons to just under the speed of light.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it boggles my mind how it is even possible to design, construct and operate a machine of such compleity. Truly awesome.

glad you liked it... plenty more coming soon on sixtysymbols... and as usual there will be extra goodies here on nottinghamscience for the diehards!

By the way I love these kind of raw videos, it feels like I am exploring the place myself, for me this gives much more a thrill than a heavy edited version would ever give.

It's very loud in there, so the sounds of his footsteps are probably drowned out by the humming of the machines.

My god, this video *really* drives home the rediculous size of this device. No newspaper article about the LHC with size-comparison-figures drawn next to the device can ever beat this. Thank you for showing us. :)

All this awesome equipment and physics, and here I am writing about how I find it impressive how the dude walked down the stairs at 4:40 ...

I can only watch and admire the enormous accomplishment of mankinds' brightest people. The complexity is mind boggling.

This feels like a demo reel for a new graphics card architecture, showing off the latest and greatest lighting effects, reflections, and various other visual processing powers. hehe. I gotta say it looks real! :p

Color Me impressed. Very Impressed. This is a massive piece of machinery that yet requires precision beyond any conventional equipment, consume more power and cooling than a small city, generates more Data than can be reasonably be store in a timely fashion and give us insight on the tinniest aspect of matter. To see it up close and personal must be humbling. Thank you Brady. This is fascinating.

watching this while listening to classical music. Great combination

yes... We also visited ATLAS... Videos soon on sixtysymbols

We've all been waiting for you, Gordon...

It shows how good Brady is at handling a camera ;-)

So happy you uploaded this video!

Thank you for posting this. Despite the lack of a skilled videographer doing the filming, it was still quite interesting.

Complete silence... yet I watched the whole video without skipping...!

As the camera passes by scientists having conversations and staring at readouts (2:00), and then the woman looks back, did anyone else imagine her saying, "They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamber"?

I was expecting the sound of one of those teleporting half-life enemies and the two hands with the orange suit showing up with the half-life theme in the background :D

GORDON FREEMAN, IS THAT REALLY YOU ?!

I guess there are enough places where one bad connection, a leaking valve or a single loose screw makes the whole thing stop working. Good luck findig that! Just imagine every single one of them had to placed there by someone first in designs then on site... goosebumps that humanity is able to do something like this!

Brady you should walk around the entire ring with the camera! I'd even bring popcorn

See, this is what happens when you have a reputation for professionalism and a huge signal-to-noise ratio: you get access to cool stuff like this. So tell me, Brady: who was more nervous? Them about letting you in or them holding your camera? :) Seriously, this uncut tour of the CMS experiment pegged my cool meter. Thank you for learning all this cool stuff and sharing it with us. And give the two professors with you my regards.

This would be the ideal setting for a shoot'em-up computer game. I was hoping that with the right keyboard shortcut I could lay some proximity mines or blow away a few monsters with a gatling laser pulse gun...

Without a doubt the most beautiful machine man has created..................so far :-)

Awesome! Amazing just how big this machine is.

"Yes. He will do. HE WILL DO."

Push the cart into the beam, Freeman.

I liked the video as others have said it has a very half life feel to it as if you were seeing life through the eyes of gordon freeman at black mesa. I do have a question @nottinghamscience Brady I know it is a novice filming but is all of the camera shake down to in experience and the user or do you normally have a stabilising rig on your camera.

All you need is a crow bar in your hand, its like playing Half-Life when watching this.

I can see how one can accidentally touch something in that area.

Amazing, I want to move in! Thank you for the upload!

I love being able to see the guy's hands at times, very 'first person' perspective. ...Though it may be a problem of mine that I keep waiting for him to pull out a machine gun and start shooting aliens.

It's probably just so noisy in there the camera's audio compressor is pushing down the feet level compared to the machine noise! :) but I actually prefer your more fun comment! ;)

The ultimate level design for Half-Life 3...

will there also be videos at the other detectors?

Are you able to hear a sound in that room when the protons collide?

Around @10:42 you can hear some interference on the microphone of the camera. Is this caused by a cell phone? If so, won't these signals interfere with all the equipment in this room and thus create faulty measurements?

This is amazing...

So now we know that detector is Kawasaki! Can't wait to see this technology in their bikes!

In my head the 'Mission Impossible' theme song is playing for some reason. lol

Is there a rational for all the structure colours? Green = safe etc?

I was expecting him to whip out a sniper rifle and activate some kind of cloak/shield after climbing the ladders. I've been watching too many vid card benchmarks.

Astonishing

It's like walking through Black Mesa East.

That is huge..... LUCKY GUYS!!!

The bright colors everywhere remind me of Mirror's Edge...

i like the twist at the end ;)

Sixty Symbols needs to do a collaboration with Michio Kaku. Fanboys would get their fill. ......I'm one of them.

Love this.

wow - LOVED that!

This is awesome nerd porn! I think the guy did a pretty fine job with the camera; I wonder whether he had experience with videography already. He walked smoothly, got plenty of angles from different locations, held the shot still a number of times to provide cutaways, and highlighted people and activities of interest. Good stuff!

Poor chap in black jacket and grey pants is getting stalked! ^+^

good!

Speed it up very sligthly (to make it seem as if he was running, but not as much to make viewers dizzy) and put some music from Half-Life on the background.

Humans are awesome!

Is this Half Life 2 Episode 3 gameplay?! The graphics seem so REAL!!!

I was going to say, that video was missing the familiar crowbar :P

Why are there no Vortigaunts?

where are you from?

Yeah, it reminded me of Cloverfield at times.

Rather a jolly color scheme going on there.

ok great :) really looking forward to it

I would love to work here.

I'd probably be more reluctant to trust them with my camera then they would be to let me go film it myself! :P

all i could think was, portal here, portal there. :)

this guys has VERY light feet

Crowbars from Space, Yo!

Pardon me while I geek out....OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGTOOCOOLOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGTHISISAWESOMEOMGOMGOMGI LOVE BEING A GEEK OMGOMGOMGOMG!! Thanks for the awesome video. Your proxy camera man did a great job! We got to see even more bits of this historic machine. It was fun seeing the people working on it too.

I had a Kawasaki once too, wasn't that bloody big though

This video gave me a Hadron

you should have put narration on top

Not as smooth as Brady, but still pretty good coverage. :) Cool stuff!

It's like playing half life!

Did you feel like you were giving him your baby?

I wonder what kawasaki did in LHC?

yeh heesssss

I know there is already such a video, but still: Someone should put Half-Life 2 music to this footage. :)

First, he has to get a crowbar! x'D

it reminds me of half life, wheres the guy from cern who looks like gordan freeman?!

If I was a rich, evil genious I'd buy that piece of real estate and quick!

Cameraman was a bit too chatty for my taste.

LHC POV!

Big stuff, many stairs. No place for a man with a wooden leg ;-)

Reminds me of Mirror's Edge. ^_^

i went on a school trip to atlas

Haha, i was about to say that.

LHC...macro machines hard at work, collecting data on quantum collisions. The whole facility is a fractal...

Its gordon freeman! ;)

Me too was waiting to see Barney ^^ And kill him with the crowbar.

02:53 She is white as a ghost.

I can hear Russian speech.