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Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan?
gbrumfiel writes "The world's most powerful particle collider ended an epic proton run yesterday morning, and researchers are already looking to the future. They want to build a 31-kilometer, multi-billion-dollar International Linear Collider (ILC) to study the recently-discovered Higgs boson in more detail and to look for new things as well. Japan has recently emerged as the front-runner to host the new collider. The Liberal Democratic Party, which won this weekend's elections, actually support the ILC in its party platform. But it's not yet clear whether real money will be forthcoming, or whether European and American physicists will back a Japanese bid. What do Slashdotters think? Does particle physics need a new collider? Should it go to Japan?"
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Citation needed. Every time somebody quotes that, the percentage is different.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Quakes are the least of your problems... Think about the *mini-black holes*!!!
They are created all the time in Geneva already to create the holes in their cheese, but a larger collider = larger black holes. The whole earth might turn into a hole-riddled-cheese! Think about the children!
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Are you talking about the Moon, or Finland?