"Proposed: CERN's $17 Billion Plan for a 3x Larger Particle Smasher"

CERN is planning to build the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a new particle collider three times longer than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the capability to smash particles together with significantly more energy. The ambitious project aims to push energy thresholds beyond current capabilities and promises a physics program that will take high energy research into the next century. The FCC tunnel will house two colliders, the electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) and the proton-proton collider (FCC-hh), with the goal of pushing particle collision to energies of 100 TeV and uncovering new realms of physics.