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Is there a better way to accelerate particles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Cost of Accelerating Particles

The cost of the accelerator just scales with the size. So you want more energy? You got to build a bigger collider which costs more money. We've been doing it the same way for a few decades now and we can get sort of like little incremental increases without just making it bigger. And so sort of feels like about the time that we need to jump to the next technology and figure out like a whole new way to do this kind of thing.

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