The problem with particle accelerators is that they cannot grow endlessly. Things like the Large Hadron Collider, LHC are operating at their ultimate energy level. And that means there must be new particle accelerators and colliders for new results. That means the LHC’s “only” big discovery was the Higgs boson. Sometimes researchers discuss the possibility that the Higgs boson that the LHC found may not be the Higgs boson that physicist Peter Higgs predicted. The LHC detected a new boson, but it's possible that the Higgs boson’s energy level was too low compared to the energy level that Peter Higgs predicted for his boson. The question is was the LHC found the same Higgs boson that Peter Higgs predicted?
But confirming that thing is harder than anybody predicted. The existence of the Higgs boson is so short that it’s hard to observe. But there is a so-called small asymmetry that means that there can be some other particle inside that boson. The new particle accelerator called the Future Circular Collider, FCC, would need at least 100 kilometers in diameter to really make the new science. And maybe in the distant future, the Earth will get a new ring.
That ring is the particle accelerator that can give answers to the deepest questions like where gravity really comes from? The high-energy particle accelerators are required to shoot the smallest and highest-energy particles out. There are tested things like accelerated particles using laser rays and photons that kick electrons and positrons forward. In some visions, the particle accelerator can be two particle accelerators. The annihilator explosions around the internal accelerator could pump more energy into particles. Or in other versions photons that kick electrons and positrons forward will be created using annihilation. When the system pushes electrons forward the system explodes antimatter behind them.
"The first muon ever detected, along with other cosmic ray particles, was determined to be the same charge as the electron, but hundreds of times heavier, due to its speed and radius of curvature. The muon was the first of the heavier generations of particles to be discovered, dating all the way back to the 1930s." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
"Bubble chamber tracks from Fermilab, revealing the charge, mass, energy, and momentum of the particles and antiparticles created. This recreates similar conditions to what was present during the Big Bang, where matter and antimatter can both be readily created from pure energy. At the highest energies, all particles and antiparticles can be created, but at energies corresponding to “only” a temperature of ~10 billion K or so, electron-positron pairs can still be spontaneously created." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
"The Future Circular Collider (in blue) would overlap slightly with the current Large Hadron Collider, but requires an additional ring (and tunnel) somewhere upward of 80 km in circumference: dwarfing the LHC’s current 27 km circumference. Bigger tunnels and stronger magnets are needed for a more energetic hadron collider, with the FCC proposing ~16 T magnets, approximately double the LHC’s current magnet strength." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
"This illustration shows a hypothetical ring around the Earth, which could represent a particle accelerator even larger than the Earth’s circumference. With approximately ~1500 times the radius of the Large Hadron Collider, such an accelerator, even with only slightly more advanced magnet technology, would be thousands of times more powerful. A particle accelerator that was merely a factor of ~10 more powerful than the LHC could potentially shed tremendous light on the matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzle." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
"In this artistic rendering, an active, supermassive black hole whose jet points at us (a blazar) is accelerating protons to extreme energy, producing pions as daughter particles, which in turn produce neutrinos and gamma rays. Extreme events in energy are thought to be generated by processes occurring around the largest supermassive black holes known in the Universe when they’re actively feeding. The energies of these cosmic rays vastly exceed those achieved in terrestrial accelerators." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
"By taking a hot air balloon up to high altitudes, far higher than could be achieved by simply walking, hiking, or driving to any location, scientist Victor Hess was able to use a detector to demonstrate the existence and reveal the components of cosmic rays. In many ways, these early expeditions, dating back to 1912, marked the birth of cosmic ray astrophysics." (BigThink, How particle physics will continue after the last collider)
It’s possible that the AI helps to predict the point where the highest energy particles hit the atmosphere. Or the point where high-energy cosmic bursts travel. If the system can predict those high-energy bursts places and times it helps to fly the system to receive those signals. The high-flying balloons, drones, and airships can collect those high-energy particles with their sensors. If the system is automated, that saves pilots from the cosmic radiation.
The system that uses annihilator photon acceleration can collect that antimatter from the solar wind. The system transforms electrons that hit the accelerator’s shell into antimatter. And when there is enough antimatter that system can detonate those particles. The antimatter can give extremely high energy impacts to the particle accelerators and create ultra-high temperature plasma. High-flying aircraft can also collect antimatter from the high atmosphere. In that case, the system uses the chamber where the wall is made of gold. When high-energy particles like electrons hit that chamber the gold layer transforms them into anti-electrons.
The problem with particle accelerators is when an electron or any other particle turns its direction in the circular collider it releases photons. That means when the direction of the particle changes it loses its energy. The spaceborne systems can use solar panels to get energy for the annihilators. Then the main energy source for those monster colliders is annihilation. But those visions are far, far away in the future. That kind of system could require rings that are larger than Earth's trajectory around the Sun.
The problem is that when the new systems operate always within its highest possible energy level the new science requires new accelerators. And the size of the accelerators cannot endlessly grow. And the particle accelerator that surrounds Earth requires the ultimate change in the political environment. And there is always the possibility that something goes wrong.
So, maybe. The futuristic extremely large particle accelerators will be created far away from Earth. Because if there is a small metal bite like iron dust in the accelerator and then somebody puts it on, that iron bite can impact the particle accelerator's walls causing a terrible situation where lots of energy will be released.
There is always the possibility of using things like cosmic high-energy bursts to make the energy that rises above the energy level that particle accelerators can get from Earth. The energy level of those cosmic energy bursts is ultimately high. But the problem is that those cosmic energy beams and particles that ride in them are hard to predict. Cosmic energy bursts happen all the time. But for collecting those energy bursts the system requires a precise place and time where that energy beam travels.
The high-flying aircraft can also collect and detect cosmic radiation and particles that arrive in the Earth's atmosphere. Maybe artificial intelligence, AI can help to locate the points where the highest energy particles hit. And if the system can predict the time when those particles hit, that allows it to transfer aircraft to collect those particles into its sensors. The fact is that drones or high-flying airships can make that mission. The fully automated system saves pilots from the cosmic radiation. And that thing makes it possible to create new methods to observe the highest energy particles in the universe.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/particle-physics-continue-last-collider/
https://www.space.com/28132-nasa-airship-challenge.html