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CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC

Posted by Soulskill on from the showing-the-higgs-boson-who's-boss dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Not content with the 27-kilometer-round Large Hadron Collider, researchers at CERN have their sights set on a new beast of a particle collider that could have a circumference of 80 to 100 kilometers. The nuclear research organization announced that it was hatching plans for an ambitious successor to the LHC with an international study called the Future Circular Colliders program, which will kick off with a meeting next week. The idea is to consider different hadron collider designs similar to the existing LHC but more powerful — much more powerful. CERN wrote it was looking for a collider 'capable of reaching unprecedented energies in the region of 100 TeV.' The existing LHC will reach a maximum of around 14 TeV."

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  1. Irony by Spottywot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's ironic for me is that the articles over the last couple of days have been a lot more interesting to me than in recent weeks, while I fully support the FUCK BETA protest, it's a real shame that we're missing out on some interesting discussion.

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    1. Re:Irony by AlfaMike · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree, but that is the point of a protest. Sacrifices must be made. You can't take Dice out of their comfort zone without taking the community outside of it as well.

  2. Re:Sounds great by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The idea is to consider different hadron collider designs similar to the existing LHC but more powerful â" much more powerful.

    - The new LHC is actually designed with the ability to turn Beta into a black hole.

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  3. Re:Sounds great by girlintraining · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We can use the blackholes generated by the super sized collider to wipe out beta once and for all.

    No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.

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  4. Re: Sounds great by ttucker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I always thought they were more of a pain in the ass than anything, like doing work for free.

  5. Re:Sounds great by isorox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We can use the blackholes generated by the super sized collider to wipe out beta once and for all.

    No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.

    Really? Slashdot users have alexa malware?

  6. Re:LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? by aliquis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How to make a better beta:

    1) Add unicode support to Slashdot.

  7. Re:A compelling reason... by Barsteward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    will you fucking twats take your complaints about the beta to the correct forum instead of infecting all the articles with your trivial childish comments

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  8. Re:A compelling reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NO.