Elon Musk - Founder & Owner of SpaceX & Tesla Motors.
Jan. 23, 2019
The boss of Tesla says he has been contacted by the CERN director for the creation of the super particle accelerator that will replace the current LHC.
Elon Musk. Founder & Owner of SpaceX/Tesla Motors
Elon Musk would be well digging the future LHC tunnel at CERN in Geneva. The co-founder and boss of car manufacturer Tesla split a tweet Monday to announce that the director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research had asked him if The Boring Co could build the new tunnels for the future. LHC.
The Hyperloop. Image Credit: SpaceX
With this company, Elon Musk wants to create underground tunnels to avoid traffic jams. The South African billionaire, who presented a first project in Los Angeles last December, said such collaboration would save several billion euros at CERN.
Artist's view of future FCC tunnel interiors. Image Credit: CERN
CERN confirmed the meeting between its director, Fabiola Gianotti, and Elon Musk last July without saying more. "CERN is always open to new cost-effective technologies that could lead to their implementation, including the tunnels we will need," said a spokesman.
Boson of Higgs in 2012
The large hadron collider, known as LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, detected the Higgs boson in 2012. The 27-km circular ring, which is undergoing a profound transformation, has been shut down for two years. When restarted in 2021, the accelerator will be brought to its maximum potential to be the scene of collisions between particles at an energy of 14 TeV.
Designing the Future Circular Collider
And CERN plans the creation of a new accelerator, even more powerful, with a circumference of 100 km. The ring, called FCC, would cross the lake, part of the canton of Geneva, the Country of Gex (F) and Haute-Savoie (F). Its costs are estimated at several billion euros.
Editor's and writer note:
Switzerland already has a great deal of experience and expertise in tunneling, with the longest tunnel in the world, the Gotthard, length of 57.1 km and 152 km of galleries in total and many other tunnels in the Alps and everywhere in Switzerland (920 rail and road tunnels).
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International collaboration publishes concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN
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