Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" $17-billion project.

There is real competition" from China in particular, she cautioned, hailing that the giant FCC “project is absolutely on the good track” and urging states to release the funding needed to move forward.

With an average depth of 200 meters (660 feet), the tunnel would accommodate a particle accelerator that would be more than three times the length of CERN’s existing Large Hadron Collider, currently the largest of its kind.

  • TheMightyCat@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    I mean if China wants to spend 17 billion euros on building a giant ring, let them???

    I’m all for science but I think we have bigger concerns right now then smashing particles together.

      • Ziggurat@jlai.luEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        Because it’s interesting for science, worst case we de precision Higgs physics, best case, we finally find SUSY, extra dimensions or whatever.

        Among all the technology developed using LHC money 30 to 20 years ago, the most famous would be the Web (Sharing documents as Web pages linked through hypertext link) but it also gave a huge push to superconducting magnet, vacuum and even detector technology. With everyday application in health (e.g. Imaging) but also enabling research in other field (Particle accelerators are way more common than you think)

        Finally, I am rather competing with Russia/China using particle accelerators than guns and tanks

        So it looks like a way better investment than fighter jet or tax discount for billionaires