The Next Big Particle Accelerator

Guinnessy writes "This year more than a thousand physicists gathered for three weeks at Snowmass Village, in the Colorado Rockies near Aspen, to talk about the future of particle physics in the US. Physics Today has a report on the meeting which says that the community should build a 500-GeV electron-positron linear collider. That's powerful enough to make mini black holes."

Comments

oh boy, maybe we'll find a smaller piece of crap

[nafeger]

What is the hope with this? Scientists seem to be on the quest for the smallest possible things. If it were merely for the academic quest of finding smaller stuff I'd be all for it. However, it seems to me that in their search for particulars, they hope to understand the universal. It just seems like their heading in the wrong direction.

Re:Probably won't get built

[Ghengis]

At least not until the country is done building more planes, bombs, guns, cruise missles, light armored vehicles, helicopters, etc. to allow the bin Laden family to finally cash in on that life insurance policy.