This supercollider in space may give us the physics breakthrough we need
<p>The current plans for the Future Circular Collider are for it to be about 90 km in circumference, over 3 times longer than the current world champion, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). That will give us collision energies of 100 TeV versus the LHC’s 14 TeV.</p>
<p>That is all well and good, but it could be a lot of work and $20 billion for nothing given that we have no compelling theoretical reasons to expect there to be anything new at those energies. Certainly, it would nail down a lot of details in the Standard Model of particle physics, but it might fall short of what is needed.</p>
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