How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe - eviltoast
CERN has revealed plans for the Future Circular Collider, which will dwarf the Large Hadron Collider in size and power and hunt for the missing 95% of our universe.
  • mr_robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    9 months ago

    Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.

    Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

      Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

      And I have full confidence we’ll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.