China Building MASSIVE Particle Accelerator Twice The Size Of Large Hadron Collider

China is planning to build an enormous particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, according to state media reports.

According to China Daily, the new facility will be capable of producing millions of Higgs boson particles - a great deal more than the Large Hadron Collider which originally discovered the ‘God particle’ back in 2012.

The Higgs boson particle is important because it is thought to be one of the basic building clocks of the universe.

Planning for China’s large-scale project started back in 2013, Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics at the China Academy of Sciences told China Daily.

While many nations are limiting the amount of funds available for research with no clear applications, China is reportedly spending huge sums of money on theoretical and practical scientific research in a bid to become a word leader in a number of fields.

The scientists behind the project stressed that it would be ‘a machine for the world and by the world: not a Chinese one’, with physicists from around the globe travelling to China to work on it.

The Large Hadron Collider, based in Switzerland, is currently the world’s largest particle accelerator and was completed in 2008. It was shut down in 2013 for a two-year upgrade and started delivering data again in June 2015.

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