The research potential of a proposed massive particle smasher that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider doesn’t justify its huge price tag
CERN, the physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is well known as the home of the world’s biggest particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). On Tuesday it revealed a design study for an even bigger machine, the Future Circular Collider (FCC).
Costs start at €9 billion for the least expensive version, going up to an eye-watering €21 billion for the grandest vision. Inside a 100-kilometre-long ring tunnel, particles would be smashed together at energies which dwarf those achievable in the LHC. The idea has created plenty of excitement. The problem is, it is …
source: newscientist.com