[Reblog]: Physicists Look Beyond the Large Hadron Collider, to the Very Large Hadron Collider
By George Musser | Fonte: Scientific American June 9, 2014 In 1954 the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi did a simple but depressing calculation about future particle accelerators. To create particles with an energy of 3 teraelectron-volts, he estimated, you’d have to build a ring 8,000 kilometers in radius at a cost of $170 billion. It was a…