Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider and largest machine on Earth in 2020. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries.

The aim of the LHC's detectors was to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics, including measuring the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetric theories, as well as other unsolved questions of physics.

Protons in the LHC are accelerated at 1012 m/s2 whereas Planck acceleration at the scale of 1051 m/s2 is required to create conditions found in the Big Bang.

The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) will be the successor to the LHC and it could be built in the mid-2030s. Its accelerator ring will be 62 miles around and it run at seven times the energy of the LHC. The purpose of it is to vastly improve our knowledge about the Higgs Boson particle, dark matter, dark energy, and string theory. In the long term, this new collider could help with the development of picotechnology, which enables technological manipulation of matter that is three orders of magnitude smaller than nanotechnology.