Aerial View of the CERN. Credit: CERN
The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider
(source 2nd photo: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46862486)
The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider
(source 2nd photo: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46862486)
They include:
1973: The discovery of neutral currents in the Gargamelle bubble chamber;[12]
1983: The discovery of W and Z bosons in the UA1 and UA2 experiments;[13]
1989: The determination of the number of light neutrino families at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) operating on the Z boson peak;
1995: The first creation of antihydrogen atoms in the PS210 experiment;[14]
1999: The discovery of direct CP violation in the NA48 experiment;[15]
2010: The isolation of 38 atoms of antihydrogen;[16]
2011: Maintaining antihydrogen for over 15 minutes;[17]
2012: A boson with mass around 125 GeV/c2 consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.[18]
In September 2011, CERN attracted media attention when the OPERA Collaboration reported the detection of possibly faster-than-light neutrinos.[19] Further tests showed that the results were flawed due to an incorrectly connected GPS synchronization cable.[20]
The 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer for the developments that resulted in the discoveries of the W and Z bosons.
The 1992 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to CERN staff researcher Georges Charpak “for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber”.
The 2013 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theoretical description of the Higgs mechanism in the year after the Higgs boson was found by CERN experiments.
yikes!
What is the carbon footprint of that installation? The amount of electricity it uses must be immense.
I used to do these experiments.
I would collide Hot Wheels cars into each other.
Cost me like two bucks.
I created a black hole that swallowed up San Francisco.
Whatever was in the black hole kicked San Francisco back out and told me to knock it off.
TXnMA
When will it start generating some profit?
More matryoshka particle nesting? Suppose we fimd out we need a supercollider the size of the solar system to generate speeds high enuf? Suppose we need ALL the energy in the universe to crack matter apart? We will only stop when all phenomena can be precisely defined and precisely controlled. We may run out of space and energy to find out..in the meantime...full relativistic speed ahead
When the first one pays for itself, let me know.
It's about dern time. They're overdue for discovery of the Buddha particle.