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Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon

A lunar particle accelerator could reach 1,000 times the energy of Earth’s largest collider

Earth's moon

Though the idea of building a particle collider on the moon seems out of this world, physicists are considering the possibilities.

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By Emily Conover

- More than 2 years ago

If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator.