By Rob Waugh Last updated at 8:28 PM on 30th December 2011 A physicist at Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute has recreated one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego - and the replica machine is to scale with the tiny Lego engineers that walk through its tunnels. Sacha Melhase used 9,500 pieces of Lego to build the model - a task which took him 35 hours.The Niels Bohr Institute covered his 2,000 Euro brick bill - hoping that Mehlhase's work would inspire interest in high-energy physics. The scale model, built by Sascha Mehlhase using 9,500 Lego pieces, is of of the Atlas particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider - one of two particle detectors used in the hunt for the Higgs boson
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To scale with Lego 'engineers' inside its tunnels
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Construction takes 35 hours
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Recreates Atlas detector's huge magnets
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Danish physicist has contacted Lego with offer to make the 'kit' official
Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider
Mehlhase recruited his wife to help with sorting the 9,500 bricks for the model, but built the mini @placeholder himself