Do we need another massive particle collider? Science Weekly podcast

With the Large Hadron Collider reaching its upper limits, scientists around the world are drawing up plans for a new generation of super colliders. Ian Sample weighs up whether or not the potential new discoveries a collider may make will justify the cost of building them.Cern recentlyannounced a proposal to build a machine that would dwarf theLarge Hadron Collider.It could cost around $12bn. But Cern isn ’t the only lab looking at building such a monster machine.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 22, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample and produced by Danielle Stephens Tags: Particle physics Science Cern Source Type: news