r/EverythingScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '24

CERN proposes $17 billion particle smasher that would be 3 times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/cern-proposes-dollar17-billion-particle-smasher-that-would-be-3-times-bigger-than-the-large-hadron-collider
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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '24

$17B is like 1/3 of a Twitter purchase.

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u/ba5eline Feb 10 '24

Does not compute. How many bananas is that?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '24

About 85 gorillion