Russian plans to build particle accelerator (al Jazeera)

[eppur_se_muova]

Deep underground, on the border between France and Switzerland, is a gigantic scientific machine.

The Large Hadron Collider, spanning 100m underground, is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles, in the hope of better understanding the universe.

Now Russian scientists plan to have a Hadron Collider as well.

While it will use 1000 times less energy that the European counterpart, the Superconductive Cryogenic Nuclotron is a series of pipes used to propel atomic particles at tremendous speed.

In seven years time this will be an integral part of Russia's Collider but the project has some controversial international partners, North Korea and Cuba among them.
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more: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2011/07/201172613013791228.html

[Marblehead]

1. the race for anti-matter weapons

[DetlefK]

2. 7 years? I bet it's gonna be at least 20!

It took the russians 17 years to renovate the Bolshoi theater.

So, we have a state-funded multi-billion-dollar-project in a country rife with corruption. What will happen?

[knitter4democracy]

3. Huh. Sort of like the MSU cyclotron, then.

Interesting.