Announced plans to build the world's largest machine

Scientists have announced a project to build an accelerator that is bigger than the Large Particle Accelerator, the largest in the planet.

Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the planet's largest machine. Its mission is to help the physicists confirm the existence of the Higgs, or "the seed of God . " Now scientists want to install a larger machine to look for evidence of dark matter - which accounts for 95 percent of the universe, the Newscientist reported.

In three scientific events in Tokyo, Geneva and Chicago this week, scientists announced plans to build the International Linear Collider, . At about 26km, the International Linear Accelerator will help physicists decipher the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. We do not see dark matter, but scientists believe that they represent the majority of the universe.

Partial Linear Accelerator illustration. (Photo: mathworks.com)

More than 1,000 scientists will be involved in the International Linear Accelerator project. The cost of the project is over $ 8 billion. Scientists have not yet agreed on the location of the project, but they see Japan as the most potential candidate.

The International Linear Accelerator will consist of two linear accelerators located opposite each other along a tunnel. The length of the tunnel is about 26km. Two machines have the ability to project 10 billion electrons and positrons (electrons that are opposite to electrons) at nearly the speed of light.

The two electrons and positrons collide 14,000 times per second at a power level of 500 billion electron-volts (eV). The collision between them allows physicists to observe heavier particles before they decay, and to simulate the universe immediately after the Big Bang (birth of the universe). Because physicists can use electrons and positrons, experiments in the International Linear Accelerator will allow for a much clearer view of the Higgs field than large particle accelerators.

Scientists predict that the Higgs field will spread throughout the universe and that masses of fundamental particles will move through the Higgs field.