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Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universe | Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider
Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider, built inside a 27km circular tunnel beneath the Swiss-French countryside, smashes together protons and other subatomic particles at close to the speed of light to recreate the conditions that existed fractions of a second after the big bang. Sir David King, the UK’s former government chief scientific adviser, told the BBC that spending billions on the machine would be “ reckless ” when the world was facing such grave threats from the climate crisis. Prof Fabiola Gianotti, the director general of Cern, said: “If approved, the FCC would be the most powerful microscope ever built to study the laws of nature at the smallest scales and highest energies, with the goal of addressing some of the outstanding questions in today’s fundamental physics and our understanding of the universe.”
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