{"id":230049,"date":"2026-01-28T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cern-chief-upbeat-on-funding-for-new-particle-collider"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:27:53","slug":"cern-chief-upbeat-on-funding-for-new-particle-collider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cern-chief-upbeat-on-funding-for-new-particle-collider","title":{"rendered":"CERN chief upbeat on funding for new particle collider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-chief-upbeat-on-funding-for-new-particle-collider.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe\u2019s physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world\u2019s biggest particle accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, seeks to unravel what the universe is made of and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>The planned Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be an electron-positron collider ring with a circumference of 91 kilometers and an average depth of 200 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe\u2019s physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world\u2019s biggest particle accelerator. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, seeks to unravel what the universe is made of and how it works. The planned Future Circular Collider (FCC) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230049","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=230049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}