Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" $17-billion project.

There is real competition" from China in particular, she cautioned, hailing that the giant FCC “project is absolutely on the good track” and urging states to release the funding needed to move forward.

With an average depth of 200 meters (660 feet), the tunnel would accommodate a particle accelerator that would be more than three times the length of CERN’s existing Large Hadron Collider, currently the largest of its kind.

  • TheMightyCat@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    9 months ago

    I mean if China wants to spend 17 billion euros on building a giant ring, let them???

    I’m all for science but I think we have bigger concerns right now then smashing particles together.

    • Lemmist@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      9 months ago

      Yes, fist smash Russia, then smash particles. Priorities!