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Throwback Thursday: What should we build after the LHC? (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” –Enrico Fermi
At 13 TeV of proton-proton energy collisions, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gives us the greatest number of the most powerful particle collisions ever seen on Earth, far more than any cosmic source from the Universe and far more energetic than any other terrestrial accelerator. It’s already found us the Higgs boson and has helped better measure other Standard Model particles’ properties, but has yet to turn up anything beyond the Standard Model.
Image credit: Gordon Kane, Scientific American, May 2003.
But that could all change if we built a machine that went to even higher energies! While the particle physics community focuses on an electron-positron linear collider at lower energy, the real frontier would come from going bigger: possibly even around the Earth’s circumference!
Image credit: Artist’s conception of the ILC, via MIT’s Knight Science Tracker.
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/10/08/throwback-thursday-what-should-we-build-after-the-lhc-synopsis/
Mars core reactor units.