It’s the big bang, in pop-up form! “7000 tonnes of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips leap from the page in 3D pop-up, to tell the story of CERN’s quest to understand the birth of the universe,” explains the facebook page of this little gem, devised by paper engineer Anton Radevsky, CERN writer Emma Sanders, and scientists at the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector.

Aside from a pop-up peek at the birth of the universe, readers also get to build ATLAS – much as the CERN engineers did, Sanders notes, since the outer shell comes first before the detectors slide inside. Hat tip: Symmetry Breaking.

Voyage to the Heart of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN is out from November (published by Papadakis).

Images: CERN/Claudia Marcelloni