REAL LIFE NEWS: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER TO GET AN UPGRADE
by Hazed
The Large Hadron Collider which lives in a massive tunnel at Cern in Switzerland has been smashing particles together to see what happens since it opened. Now an upgrade is planned to make it even more powerful.
Costing 950m Swiss francs (about $950m or £720m), the project will involve installing new buildings, access shafts, service tunnels and heavy equipment at the lab on the outskirts of Geneva. This will make the collider a lot more sensitive to anomalies and quirks in the laws of physics, which could lead to entirely new theories of the universe.
The upgrade means that the souped-up accelerator will have proton beams so intense that the number of collisions will be between five and ten times greater than is possible today.
