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CERN Council endorses building larger supercollider:
The CERN Council has unanimously endorsed the idea of building a newer, larger circular supercollider, dubbed the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The group made the announcement on June 19. The move is the first step toward building a 100 TeV 100-kilometer circumference collider around Geneva. As part of the vote, the group approved the launch of a technical and financial feasibility study for the new collider.
[...] The approval by the CERN council was not an official go-ahead for the project—it was a go-ahead to look into its feasibility. The next step will involve figuring out where to dig the new tunnel and whether it will be possible to do so in the area near the LHC. If the feasibility study and financial estimates work out as hoped, the next step would be actual approval for the project to move forward. Once that happens, the funds for the project would have to be made available by participating countries in Europe and the U.K.—and this time, perhaps, from other countries such as the U.S., China or Japan. Also, research efforts would have to be developed and launched to design and build the hardware needed for the project.
More at CERN : https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-collider
At this point the only construction CERN has endorsed is for the creation of a powerpoint and maybe a spreadsheet.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:05PM (8 children)
Hilarious! Best laugh of the day!
I have a difficult time seeing the US investing in anything that is:
* not going to show a profit THIS quarter
* has anything to do with this science stuff, but not focused on an actual product
* likely to give even more credibility to eviloution
* obviously inferior to something that the US could do alone but bigger, better and more corruptly
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:44PM (1 child)
But more importantly, how does this sell smart phones? It could serve up live updates and alerts via an app that collects user data. Perhaps it could be remote controlled exclusively using the newest smart phone models. It has to be monetized somehow. It it doesn't involved smart phones somehow, then it is just obsolete old tech that has no reason to exist.
(Score: 2, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:13PM
1. Collect presidential tweets
2. Accelerate them to nearly the speed of light in opposite directions
3. Collide them within a detector (like smashing two swiss watches together to see what comes flying out)
4. ???
5. Prophet
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:55PM (4 children)
You do know that US already supported LHC, contributing several key components? And that CERN is supporting DUNE, the next big US high energy physics project?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 24 2020, @06:25PM
Yes.
I think the US political apparatus was a bit more sane.
No. Didn't know.
That's a good thing. I think. Assuming Trump doesn't eliminate DUNE.
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:00PM (2 children)
Are they going to look for the Spice particle? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:51PM
Harkonnons
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:11PM
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of caffeine the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:27AM
> "Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan
An interesting research question but more humanities than science. So obviously not fundable.