Concerned About CERN? Now They Want a Bigger One (CERN, That Is)

• Concerned About CERN? Now They Want a Bigger One (CERN, That Is)
  by https://gizadeathstar.com/
  …. So why am I on another tear with my conCERNs about CERN? Well, my conCERNs started when I read a book by a scientist describing the machine in terms of religious ecstasy (see my book The Third Way). To read him, you’d almost think the collider was the cathedral at Chartres. It was like reading some scientific Savanarola, “when a coin into the collection plate doth ring, a stream from the synchrotron doth spring,” or something like that. In short, my concern with CERN was, and is, that being a quasi-sovereign entity, it set itself up as some sort of “cosmology cartel,” with the college of cardinals teams of scientists interpreting the latest results of their studies experiments for the rest of the world to be duly impressed by and to accede to.  Therein lies my first conCERN, for having a monopoly on all copies of the bible and church fathers results of experiments, you and I can hardly run out into our garages, turn on our own hadron colliders, and check them. The fact that we’re dealing with a “cosmology cartel” (as I put it in The Third Way) may in part account for why the Protestants China announced it wants to build its own, bigger version. (Cue music: Anything you can do, we can do better; anything you can build, we can build bigger).
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  Well, not to be outdone by those pesky Protestants Chinese, CERN, sensing its cosmology cartel might be in some danger of competition, has announced it intends to maintain its meson monopoly by building an even bigger version, according to this BBC story shared by Ms. S.H. and Mr. L.G.:
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  Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search 
  The graphic in the BBC article says it all, CERN wants a 100km collider, and I find it odd that the graphic depicts its location to run under several interesting terrain features. The cost, as noted in the article, is some twenty billion pounds, all for the following purpose:
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