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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC
ananyo writes "When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5-billion machine to work. But with the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC has fulfilled its original promise — and physicists are beginning to get excited about designing a machine that might one day succeed it: the Very Large Hadron Collider. The giant machine would dwarf all of its predecessors (see 'Lord of the rings'). It would collide protons at energies around 100 TeV, compared with the planned 14TeV of the LHC at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva in Switzerland. And it would require a tunnel 80-100 kilometres around, compared with the LHC's 27-km circumference. For the past decade or so, there has been little research money available worldwide to develop the concept. But this summer, at the Snowmass meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota — where hundreds of particle physicists assembled to dream up machines for their field's long-term future — the VLHC concept stood out as a favorite."
the BFHC?
hmmm....I wonder where they could build it. Oh - I know. Dallas. The tunnel has been dug so all they have to do is drop in a few magnates.
I'm all for putting Donald Trump underground, but shouldn't we cover the hole with dirt afterwards?
hmmm....I wonder where they could build it. Oh - I know. Dallas. The tunnel has been dug so all they have to do is drop in a few magnates
Not sure how dropping a few billionaires into a hole in Texas would help get this project built but I'm not opposed to trying it.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
They should kickstarter the money for it. I'll throw in $50. Flex goals: Stargate; flux capacitor; warp drive.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
They need to get a naming convention started.
If the present one is the Large Hadron Collider, the next one the Very Large Hadron Collider, then the following one should be the Ultra Large Hadron Collider.
1. Large Hadron Collider
2. Very Large Hadron Collider
3. Ultra Large Hadron Collider
4. Extremely Large Hadron Collider
5. Gargantuan Large Hadron Collider
6. Mammoth Large Hadron Collider
7. Unbelievably Large Hadron Collider
8. Inconceivably Large Hadron Collider
9. Budget Busting Large Hadron Collider
After this, there won't be money left to build any more.
Each new larger collider should be constructed with it's center at the same center point as previous colliders. Thus all of the colliders form a set of concentric rings. They can be called the Nine Circles of Collision.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
No need to fill in the hole; just comb over it.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!