Sure enough ...

... the Super HUMUNGOUS Particle Collider is now in planning:

home.cern...

... as predicted here:

vitency.com...

The Ultimate Beavertron hot on the heels of the Biggs scroton.

Pretty sure I've learned enough and read enough from ATS experts that there is nothing a man man particle accelerator can do to destroy earth. Or find anything that's not been theorized.

What's your point? You've listed articles, but made no inference or point....

a reply to: ColinT

Beaverton sounds kinky.

This is awesome news.

They've reached the limit in many ways for how high the energy of these collisions can be with the LHC. This is NOT to say that the LHC is done working.

Regardless of the presence of the Higgs boson, there are still many unanswered questions about the fundamental nature of the universe.

Did you think we were done discovering things OP?

> Did you think we were done discovering things OP?

Not at all! We've yet to find the scroton.

> but made no inference or point

I'm desperately awaiting the scroton. And yep, it's bound to be kinky!

a reply to: ColinT

What would 'we' actually do with it (nothing)?

a reply to: projectvxn

How bout 'we' spend a trillion dollars wrapping one all the way around the entire planet. We'd be totally stoked for like a few years.

a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

I would love to build a massive habitable solar array around Earth with a microwave power distribution system for delivering excess power to stations on Earth.

But where does all of that mass come from? Do we dismantle the moon? Use asteroids?

Sci-fi is impractical.

a reply to: projectvxn

It'd be a heck of a lot cooler to mobilize entire cities and let em play dog eat dog in a epic struggle of Municipal Darwinism.

a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

Screw 'em. They had their chance to join the Orbital Army.

There was a superb article in Scientific American perhaps two decades ago that proposed in some detail the requirements of the "Ultimate Collider". Something in the order of the diameter of Jupiter's orbit, powered by a central star, and capable of detecting anything down to the Planck length.

Never been able to track it down, unfortunately.