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Could we build a particle collider on the moon?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is It Too Much of a Carbon Cost to Build a Big Thing?

There's a reason why particle coliders have to be so big. They need a lot of energy in order to answer the deep questions of the universe. The bonds that hold an electron to the nucleus are very stro theyare much more powerful than gravity, which is the force you deal with on an everyday basis. So we suspect that as we go deeper and look inside the proton and then inside the cork, will need even more energy to tear that apart. We want to discover new particles we haven't seen yet.

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