Europe's CERN laboratory has taken its first steps towards building a huge new particle accelerator that would eclipse its Large Hadron Collider -- and hopes to see light at the end of the tunnel.
The Future Circular Collider particle smasher would be more than triple the length of the LHC, already the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, constructed in the hope of revealing secrets about how the universe works.
Eight technical and scientific sites would be built on the surface, with seven in France and one in Geneva, CERN engineer Antoine Mayoux told reporters this week. Among other things, it was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson -- dubbed the God particle -- which broadened the understanding how particles acquire mass, and earned two scientists who had theorised its existence the 2013 Nobel physics prize."The problem with accelerators is that at some point, no matter how much data you accumulate, you hit a wall of systematic errors," CERN physicist Patrick Janot said.
"The benefits of our research are extremely important," said Malika Meddahi, CERN's deputy director for accelerators and technology, citing as examples medical imaging and the fight against tumours.
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