We were talking about this at work yesterday and trying to add up how many new LHC each UK government foul up could have bought.<p>- HS2 rail : about five LHC
- Liz Truss Budget: about two
- Energy suppliers: only half
- we stopped at this point<p>Honestly it’s depressing how much we want to nickel and dime
Scientific research yet are hilariously incompetent elsewhere
There is nothing to imply that there is something to be discovered at that energy scale (100 TeV), and likely any potential breakthrough is far from the reach of the FCC. At least the LHC was aiming for the Higss (which could also be discovered at the Tevatron, but this was not certain at the time) and there was a great hope for supersymmetry. Perhaps the funding would best be used in other endeavors…
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, CERN’s large hadron collider has not revealed any new significant physics that explains some of the deeper mysteries of the universe.<p>It would be amazing if this new collider will let us peek beyond the decade long stasis.
The Superconducting Supercollider was to have a circumference of 87.1 km. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is similar at a planned 91 km circumference. We could have had this in Texas.
a little Off-Topic but if you ever get to visit Geneva, there is a permanent exhibition at CERN to show how the LHC work and what is the organization around it to collect information, keep it running... etc... it is rather kid friendly too.
This seems to imply that the LHC has done it's job? Would it be switched off in the foreseeable future? Does the CERN run other instruments or is its existence tied to the LHC?
Maybe there are no secrets, but every time a new experiment is conducted, the universe randomly decides the outcome and then sticks to it?<p>I think this is what we assume about small things already, like the position of a previously unmeasured photon or the spin of a previously unmeasured electron, right? Neither the photon has a position, nor the electron has a spin, but we measure one. And from then on, the the universe acts according to the measured values.