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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Pierre Celerier

Plan For Europe's Huge New Particle Collider Takes Shape

The FCC would form a new circular tunnel under France and Switzerland (Credit: AFP)

Europe's CERN laboratory revealed more details Monday about its plans for a huge new particle accelerator that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ramping up efforts to uncover the underlying secrets of the universe.

If approved, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) would start smashing its first particles together around the middle of this century -- and start its highest-energy collisions around 2070.

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