List of places shown in the video:
+Sultan the Pit Pony (Wales)
+Atacama Giant (Chile)
+Uffington White Horse (England)
+Area 51 Bomb Target (NV, USA)
+Nazca Lines (Peru)
+Firefox Logo (OR, USA)
+Coca-Cola logo (Chile)
+Alton Barnes White Horse (England)
+Folkestone Horse (England)
+Pintados Geoglyphs (Chile)
+Chiza Geoglyphs (Chile)
+Long Man of Wilmington (England)
+Cerne Abbas Giant (England)
+Barnsley Crop Circles (England)
+Darfield Crop Circles (England)
+Marree Man (Australia)
+Ciudad Juarez White Horse (Mexico)
+Blythe Geoglyphs (CA, USA)
+Traditional Tibetan Mantra (China)
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Music:
"Mars from The Planets"
BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1999
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Coordinates:
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Sultan the Pit Poney:
51°39'2.63"N, 3°15'22.89"W
Atacama Giant:
19°56'57.06"S, 69°38'2.21"W
Uffington Horse:
51°34'38.96"N, 1°33'59.75"W
Area 51 Bomb Target:
37°39'57.84"N, 116° 1'30.69"W
Nazca Lines:
14°41'27.91"S, 75° 7'3.22"W
Firefox Logo:
45° 7'25.54"N, 123° 6'49.41"W
Coca-Cola logo:
18°31'45.17"S, 70°15'0.04"W
Alton Barnes White Horse:
51°22'21.15"N, 1°50'53.10"W
Folkestone White Horse:
51° 6'3.95"N, 1° 8'22.77"E
Pintados:
20°37'23.96"S, 69°40'4.30"W
Chiza:
19°12'13.42"S, 70° 0'31.19"W
Long Man of Wilmington:
50°48'34.77"N, 0°11'18.77"E
Cerne Abbas Giant:
50°48'47.37"N, 2°28'28.05"W
Crop Circles 1:
53°32'13.22"N, 1°30'17.42"W
Crop Circles 2:
53°31'54.37"N, 1°21'24.19"W
Marree Man:
29°32'3.14"S, 137°28'15.24"E
Ciudad Juárez White Horse:
31°39'44.93"N, 106°35'15.97"W
Blythe:
33°47'43.31"N, 114°32'13.11"W
Tibetan Mantra:
32°54'36.39"N, 97° 2'46.38"E

More Info:
Every Second it CERN collects 40 Terabytes of information and in one year thats 10 times the total space of the entire Internet.
and it's only 2 degrees C from absolute zero
Also every second it uses the equivalent in power as two jumbo jets, or every cell phone in the U.S.

woo hoo...

(incidentally, having studied the cerne abbas giant extensively when I was at uni - there is no recordings of it before the 18th century - so it's probably not pagan at all, but in fact some drunken joke from the 1700s)

An interesting article about Peter Higgs, a humble guy who says:

"Most of what has been attached to my name should not have been," he replies, "but probably the Higgs boson is correctly attached because I was probably the person who drew attention to it most in my papers. However, as far as the mechanism of generating vector boson masses is concerned, I usually write down a whole string of names, starting with Anderson and including Englert and Brout, Gerald Guralnik, Dick Hagen and Tom Kibble, and also Gerard 't Hooft."
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/7/6

The physicist in the video, Kim Griest, says the typical theoretical upper bound for mass of higgs boson is around 1 TeV. He, personally thinks around "1000 GeV" is where it should be, "maybe up to 2000 GeV". Yet, Jos Engelen, CERN's chief scientific officer, who's been at CERN since 1971, say's "LEP showed that the Higgs was heavier than 114.4 GeV, and we can also guess its mass from other experiments. Within the Standard Model we know that it is not heavier than 240 GeV at the 95% confidence level." Engelen says that the LHC will only be able to produce pairs of Higgs bosons if the Higgs mass is less than 500 GeV. Hmmm, I remain thoroughly confused
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/9/7

The New York Times has a suprisingly good, and lenghty, article about the LHC with nice multimedia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/science/15cern.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

CERN has a metric shitload of media and info here:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/
- It kinda bugs me that they have such a strict copyright on their media. Isn't it predominantly publicly funded?

Perspective on collision energies:
The LEP, the predicessor to LHC, prior to going offline in 2000, topped out at --- 104 GeV.
The Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is running at ---------------- 1.96 TeV.
The LHC will initially be capable of colliding beams of protons at an energy of -- 14 TeV.
The abandoned SSC project here in the US would have been capable of --------- 40 TeV.

the dangers include

* Creation of a stable black hole[7]
* Creation of strange matter that is more stable than ordinary matter
* Creation of magnetic monopoles that could catalyze proton decay
* Triggering a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum (see False vacuum)


But...
CERN performed a study to investigate whether such dangerous events as micro black holes, strangelets, or magnetic monopoles could occur.[8] The report concluded, "We find no basis for any conceivable threat." If black holes are produced, they are expected to evaporate almost immediately via Hawking radiation and thus be harmless. It should be noted however that this is not a wholly convincing argument because Hawking radiation is currently an untested theory. Perhaps the strongest argument for the safety of colliders such as the LHC comes from the simple fact that cosmic rays of much higher energies than the LHC can produce have been bombarding the Earth, Moon and other objects in the solar system for thousands of millions of years with no such effects.

Should have a warning: "Warning!: Currently only IBM's Big Blue working in tandem with the data analyzing hardware at CERN laboratories is able to render this graphics engine in realtime. We're counting on hardware manufacturers to save us again!"

"...no one's heard of the SF Multimedia Lab, and his super-high-tech portrayal of VR in 2005 could be outdone by a modern PC with a 3D card. However, these are just minor niggles when you consider how much more popular the technologies in question have become than anyone could have predicted - for while Douglas was creating Hyperland, a student at CERN in Switzerland was working on a little hypertext project he called the World Wide Web..." [douglasadams.com]

The Elegant Universe must be getting old, as CERN has had the worlds largest Particle Accelerator or 'Atom Smasher' for quite a few years now...