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The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe: dark matter.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026

The LHC is a giant particle accelerator built in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

This is still not nearly powerful enough to see strings or curled-up dimensions—viewing strings would require a particle accelerator about 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles around.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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