The Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine ever built by humans — here’s the plan for an even bigger one

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine ever built by humans — here’s the plan for an even bigger one

But there are plans for even larger machines.

One, a whopping 50-mile-long circular particle accelerator with energy collisions nearly 10 times as powerful as the LHC, might be a little too ambitious for the near future. We don't even know how to build magnets capable of accelerating particles to that kind of energy level.

The second idea, however, is a 20-mile-long straight line accelerator and it has a good chance of being built in the next few years.

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