The most important particle accelerator and collider ever constructed is the Massive Hadron Collider at CERN. Why not go a lot, a lot larger?
The Massive Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, strongest particle accelerator ever constructed on Earth. Accelerating protons as much as energies of ~7 TeV apiece — to energies about 7000 occasions better than their rest-mass vitality as given by E=mc² — it smashes protons circulating clockwise with protons circulating counterclockwise into each other at particular collision factors, the place big detectors then measure the particles rising from these collisions and try to reconstruct them in an effort to probe elementary physics. After saying the invention of the Higgs boson in 2012, it continues to probe the subatomic universe to the best precisions of all-time.
However in an effort to push the frontiers of physics even additional, a brand new, extra highly effective machine shall be required: a future particle collider. Though there are 4 foremost ideas at the moment being thought of, there are a lot of who finally hope for a particle accelerator the dimensions of Earth, and even better. That’s what Gary Camp has been fascinated with, as he writes in to ask:
“Since larger is best (to this point) I’m toying with the concept of a collider…
