What is the problem here? Any science nerd who doesn't get a thrill from this -- hey I'll even give a fast forward or two -- maybe isn't really a science nerd. No, not really Great Science Fiction? Maybe not but this is more about the setting and the 'realistic' physicists, than the plot and the production. Or I would have just skipped the movie and moved on and not whined about some student movie not impressing me like Avatar.
These are the people and equipment who actually DID discover the Higgs Boson, which made the entire physics Standard Model that has come out of relativity and quantum mechanics complete with its greatest confirmation ever!!! That was the culmination of 100 years of specific work on that model! The work done by these scientists and students at that lab -- NOT their movie production ability -- has become a meme that has been the subject of jokes for years. What nerd doesn't want ANY GLIMPSE of that actual accelerator which cost $13 BILLION dollars (so they can make a $2000 movie and show us the guts and their playing around in them???
By contrast, not a single bit of String Theory has been backed up experimentally, regardless of how much you may like Michio Kaku. ;)
I am a physics nerd, I took extra-bonus physics during my undergrad (electrical engineering) degree in the late 70's, back when Trekkies were all about Captain Kirk and i was more anti-Trekky then ... then around 1990 when working on my MSEE I took more physics, and I've used relativity both in my academic work and in my job in Bell Labs and Boeing Military.
Now I've gone back to school at Wichita State University, so that I can learn what's new in physics. That's where I heard about this film. Our instructor was an experimental physicist at Fermilab in Illinois, which I then visited a few weeks ago. He knows some of these people personally, and the other day I brought in DVD's I got from Fermilab to give out to the classmates, and they mentioned this film Decay. It isn't intended to be Great Art for the Snobbery Critics; it's some actual nerds doing actual nerd imagination things at the most expensive nerd toy on the planet!!!
REAL nerds will get what I mean, and were just waiting for this chance to pop up! Those who pointed this was a free film and it was with real stuff so that's a cool factor, thank you.
Alan