CERN wants to build a new particle accelerator that is four times larger than the already massive Large Hadron Collider. The project, called the Future Circular Collider, will cost in the neighborhood of $23 billion. The collider will be built in two phases, with the second not being completed until nearly 2100. When CERN, the …
Italian particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti cornered Tesla chief executive Elon Musk last July in London at a gathering of the Royal Society scientific academy. Gianotti, who’s also the director of the CERN organization which oversees the largest particle accelerator in the world, had a question for the billionaire businessman. CERN has been putting together plans …
The famous Large Hadron Collider, an insanely massive particle accelerator that’s helped scientists crack some of the most deeply hidden mysteries of the universe, is about to be dwarfed by an atom smasher that’s much bigger and more powerful. European physicists have just unveiled their proposal for the construction of a new particle smasher that …
