China declared a plan to construct a new particle accelerator to help advance scientific research in particle and high-energy physics.

Chinese physicists are planning to build a particle accelerator named the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC). It is twice the size of the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, and building the accelerator puts China ahead for scientific research. They view this as a way to advance science as a whole and hope to excel the field’s line of work.

It can further scientific progress and help construct new methods to understand atoms. With its counterpart in Switzerland, two continents may soon reorganize scientific progress.

Some research goals that China’s particle accelerator are trying to prove are certain theories on how the universe was created.

Due to certain circumstances in China, the production of the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is delayed. Its start of production will begin in 20 years or by 2035. This angers certain scientists, but for others it offers an opportunity.

At the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, Professor Gao Jie, a project leader, said, “This machine is for and by the world.”

To do this, the particle accelerator will be made into two parts. One would be a Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) to forcefully smash together electrons to study the Higgs bison with collision. Another part is Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) which allows them to study proton collisions at immense speeds.

Particle accelerators are machines that collide atoms, matter’s basic units, to break apart into smaller pieces. Scientists use these particles to try and understand a very broad topic in detail. Smashing atoms to their subatomic counterparts helps scientists understand what the universe was like when it was created. The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland tries to mimic the Big Bang and further prove its theory.

Scientists hope that the new particle accelerator would gather physicists from around the world and create new theories with all their collective information.

The designs for the particle accelerator are being thought up by the most capable physicists. Being a circular path 80 km long (about 49.71 mile), many opportunities arise for development.

“You can actually build a city inside the ring,” stated Professor Arkani-Hamed, a Princeton’s Institute of Advance Study scholar.

With the scientists of all studies growing in population, it is only natural for the machines to grow as well.