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Researchers want a new, much bigger supercollider but is it worth us paying the £12bn price tag?

1 day agocommentsCommentsShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Kate Stephens/BBC NewsImage caption, The Atlas detector is the size of a tanker and is used to measure some of the smallest objects in the UniverseBy Pallab Ghosh and Kate StephensBBC News, Cern, near GenevaResearchers at the world's biggest particle accelerator in Switzerland have submitted proposals for a new, much larger, supercollider.

Its aim is to discover new particles that would revolutionise physics and lead to a more complete understanding of how the Universe works.

If approved, it will be three times larger than the current giant machine.

But its £12bn price tag has raised some eyebrows, with one critic describing the expenditure as "reckless".

That money - which is only the initial construction cost - would come from member nations of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) including the UK, and some experts have questioned whether it makes economic sense.

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