Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could help solve remaining enigmas of physics.
The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and even below Lake Geneva — published late on Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
How about we just skip to the one that goes around the whole Earth so that we have enough energy to unfold a proton?
Sounds cool but I doubt it will solve all the remaining enigmas of physics
Its just good science
“could help solve” was the quote.
Physics is like that joke about halving the distance to a woman at a bar*. I don’t expect it will ever be entirely solved, but whatever stands as the “for all practical purposes” of the era might. I’m taking “help solve” as just another halving of the distance in this analogy.
* A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar.
The mathematician sighs. “I’d like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There’ll always be some finite distance between us.”
The engineer gets up and starts walking. “Ah, well, I figure I can get close enough for all practical purposes.”
Sounds cool but I doubt it will solve all the remaining enigmas of physics
