{"id":210717,"date":"2025-04-06T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-release-plans-for-an-even-bigger-atom-smasher-to-address-the-mysteries-of-physics"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:11:35","slug":"scientists-release-plans-for-an-even-bigger-atom-smasher-to-address-the-mysteries-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-release-plans-for-an-even-bigger-atom-smasher-to-address-the-mysteries-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-release-plans-for-an-even-bigger-atom-smasher-to-address-the-mysteries-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top minds at the world\u2019s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.<\/p>\n<p>The plans for the Future Circular Collider\u2014a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva\u2014published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study \u201cknown physics\u201d in greater detail, then enter a second phase\u2014planned for 2070\u2014that would conduct high-energy collisions of protons and heavy ions that would \u201copen the door to the unknown,\u201d said Giorgio Chiarelli, a research director at Italy\u2019s National Institute of Nuclear Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top minds at the world\u2019s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics. The plans for the Future Circular Collider\u2014a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva\u2014published late Monday put the finishing details on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}