Do we need another massive particle collider? Science Weekly podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample and produced by Danielle S from on (#49N56)
With the Large Hadron Collider reaching its upper limits, scientists around the world are drawing up plans for a new generation of super colliders. Ian Sample weighs up whether or not the potential new discoveries a collider may make will justify the cost of building them.
Cern recently announced a proposal to build a machine that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider.
It could cost around $12bn. But Cern isn't the only lab looking at building such a monster machine.