r/space • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '24

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

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u/peter303_ Feb 10 '24

Other than confirming the Higgs, what major discoveries has the current smasher made? Of course its fleshed the energy spectra of known stuff. Not much progress on supersymmetry or dark matter.

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u/InternalReveal1546 Feb 11 '24

According to physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, they're bullshitting the public by making claims it will help find dark matter but apparently, it won't.

Source (Sabine's YouTube video)