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CERN’s new 91km long ‘atom-smasher’ could soon reveal how our Universe will end
CERN plans to build a new underground 'atom-smasher' capable of revealing the secrets of the Higgs boson and, ultimately, our Universe.
“When we look for new particles like the Higgs boson, you have to put in enough energy to create it,” explains Prof Andy Parker, a physicist at Cambridge University, who chairs the scientific advisory committee for the FCC. “If you do the calculations with our current understanding of the Higgs Boson, we’re right on the boundary between instability and stability,” Parker says, whereby a stable Universe would continue expanding as things are, but an unstable one could collapse into a completely new state. However, whether or not our Universe has settled at a local minimum point or the lowest possible state is dependent on the exact mass of the Higgs boson, something researchers hope to measure more accurately using the FCC.
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