{"id":226823,"date":"2025-12-10T01:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/cern-upbeat-as-china-halts-particle-accelerator-mega-project"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:40:02","slug":"cern-upbeat-as-china-halts-particle-accelerator-mega-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/cern-upbeat-as-china-halts-particle-accelerator-mega-project","title":{"rendered":"CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-upbeat-as-china-halts-particle-accelerator-mega-project.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China\u2019s decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an \u201copportunity\u201d to ensure Europe\u2019s rival plan goes ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, China announced its intention to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), which at 100 kilometers (62 miles) long would be the world\u2019s largest particle accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>But Beijing recently put the project on ice, CERN\u2019s director-general Fabiola Gianotti told a small group of journalists at a recent briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China\u2019s decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an \u201copportunity\u201d to ensure Europe\u2019s rival plan goes ahead. Ten years ago, China announced its intention to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), which at 100 kilometers (62 miles) long would be the world\u2019s largest particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226823","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}