The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now considering. A 16-mile ring-shaped tunnel near the Swiss-French border, the underground particle accelerator is designed to replicate the cosmos’s extreme conditions shortly after the big bang by whipping up particles to near light speed, at which …

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down - Technology Shout

The Large Hadron Collider is set to be shut down — not permanently, but for a considerable period of time — and the eventual decommissioning of the famed atom accelerator is something top scientists are now considering. The Underground Particle Accelerator is a 16-mile-long circular tunnel near the Swiss-French border designed to replicate the extreme conditions of the universe shortly after the Big Bang, when physics began, by accelerating part…