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Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe
Researchers want a new, much bigger supercollider but is it worth us paying the £17bn price tag?
That money - which is only the initial construction cost - would come from member nations of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) including the UK, and some experts have questioned whether it makes economic sense. Scientists are still searching for two big unknowns - a force called dark energy which acts like the opposite to gravity, and drives objects in the Universe such as galaxies apart. A former UK government chief scientific advisor, Prof Sir David King, told BBC News he believed that spending £17bn on the project would be ''reckless''.
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