Italian particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti cornered Tesla chief executive Elon Musk last July in London at a gathering of the Royal Society scientific academy. Gianotti, who’s also the director of the CERN organization which oversees the largest particle accelerator in the world, had a question for the billionaire businessman.
CERN has been putting together plans for the development of an entirely new atom smasher, one so big it would dwarf the organization’s existing Large Hadron Collider. The latter is part of a particle accelerator facility on the French-Swiss border and which helped scientists in 2012 confirm the existence of the so-called God particle, the Higgs boson. What Gianotti wanted to know is whether Elon’s tunneling enterprise The Boring Co. would participate in building tunnels under the space for the new particle collider, which is still just an idea at this point but which generated a ton of headlines when the existence of plans for it was made public last week.
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