CERN has approved plans to build a $23 billion super-collider 100 km in diameter (62 miles) that would make the current 27 km 16 teraelectron volt (TeV) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) look … Opening the door to other dimensions. In the end, it was a success as the Large Hadron Collider has been continuously in operation since March of 2010, smashing particle beams for physicists ever since. 6. The Future Circular Collider, which CERN just greenlit, makes the LHC look like a baby.The LHC, which is the largest particle accelerator on the planet right now, has a circumference of 17 miles. Supercollider definition is - a very large collider capable of accelerating particles to very high energies. One year after CERN’s grand opening, Sergio Bertolucci, former Director for Research and Scientific Computing of the facility, grabbed headlines when he told a British tabloid the super collider … The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) that would have graced the rolling prairies of Texas would have boasted energy 20 times larger than any accelerator ever constructed and might … And that’s …