The search for the next frontier in physics

“China has an incredible opportunity to become the world leader here — don't waste it. A good example is to build the Great Collider that can lead high energy physics for the next fifty years.”

-Stephen Hawking, November 2016

 

The passing of Stephen Hawking in early 2018 deprives the particle physics community of one of its greatest and most respected scientists. It also occurred at a time when the future of particle physics looks very uncertain. After the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, the search for new physics since has yielded very little, leading to concerns over what the next particle collider would even be looking for.