Scientists Unveil Ambitious Plans for a Super-Sized Atom Smasher to Unlock Physics Mysteries
GENEVA (AP) — Leading experts from the planet’s biggest particle accelerator have published a plan outlining future directions. a much bigger successor This could greatly enhance investigations into the unsolved mysteries of physics. The designs for the Future Circular Collider—a nearly 91 kilometers (56.5 miles) long ring stretching across the French-Swiss border and under Lake Geneva—were released late Monday. This project has been in development for approximately ten years. CERN, the European organization focused on nuclear research . The FCC will perform highly accurate experiments in the middle of the 2040s to examine "well-understood physics" more closely. Following this, they plan to move into a secondary stage around 2070 which will involve high-energy proton and heavy ion collisions aimed at "unlocking new mysteries," according to Giorgio Chiarelli, who serves as a research director at Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics. "His...