China plans world’s largest supercollider

Chinese scientists are racing to complete plans for a supergiant particle collider that, when built, will dwarf every other accelerator on the planet.The underground particle-smashing ring aims to be at least twice the size of the globe’s current leading collider – the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) outside Geneva. With a circumference of 80 kilometres, the Chinese accelerator complex would encircle the entire island of Manhattan.Called the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), China hopes it will shine as a symbol of the country’s rise as a global superpower in terms of pure scientific research.

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