(Express) China’s super particle collider could RIP the fabric of the universe, according to a shock claim as an astrophysicist warns there is a chance colliders could cause a ‘catastrophe that engulfs space itself’. The east Asian nation is building a particle accelerator which will be seven times as powerful as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.

With a circumference of 34 miles, it will also be twice as long as the LHC. When CERN began work on the LHC, many feared it could end the universe or create black holes on Earth. Now with China’s plans to build a more powerful particle accelerator, the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), the fears have inevitably rose again. READ MORE


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