The 'even larger' hadron collider: Cern reveals plans for new experiments measuring 50miles in lengt

[dipsydoodle]

After discovering the smallest particle that could ever exist, the team at Cern is now considering scaling up - with a brand new collider.

The Geneva-based team which discovered the Higgs Boson this summer is now looking to the future, and are proposing a new underground accelorator with a circumference of 50miles (80kms) - three times the size of the current one under Geneva.

The collider will be used to solve a new batch of mysteries of the universe, such as how gravity interacts on a molecular level.

Any new collider is unlikely to be built until 2025, but the Cern team wish to get a head-start, concerned by the 25-year-wait it took between proposing the first collider, and its completion in 2008.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2200995/Cern-reveals-plans-new-experiments-measuring-50miles-length-solve-mystery-gravity-works.html#ixzz264H8FDEI

[caraher]

1. "the smallest particle that could ever exist"

What garbage! That's what the Daily Fail thinks the significance of the Higgs boson is? Ugh. And "how gravity interacts on a molecular level?" That's a more a word salad than sensible piece of popular science reporting.

It would be nice if they mentioned, say, the energies they'd hope for the proposed collider to achieve, rather than focus mainly on its physical size.

[dipsydoodle]

2. The Daily Fail

is actually the Guardian with its 216,000 readers as opposed to the Mail's 1,945,500 readers.

That is not in support of the Mail : just a matter of fact here in the UK.

[phantom power]

3. ugh, that really is some terrible science writing

I mean, that stands out in the really large field of bad science writing

[YankeyMCC]

4. Just imagine what it would be like if

science writers were treated like sports writers and had the same expectations of quality of analysis, knowledge of subject and writing skill.

Man that'd be kinda cool. And I don't see why it couldn't be done, science might be slow and plodding in some respects but there's plenty of drama, surprise, even rivalry and moments of inspiration (I don't mean ah-ha! moments, I mean moments when a scientist does something or discovers/proves something that takes you're breath away.)

Not that there aren't good writers out there, but they get lost in the noise I think when it comes to general exposure.

[Posteritatis]

5. Welcome to the Community Of Those Who Know The Pain Of The Daily Mail!

Here's your complimentary t-shirt and aspirin.

[Odin2005]

6. The Daily Hate Mail sucks at science reporting.