Beijing plans supersize hadron collider that'll make CERN look like the 1st Ring Road

China is now planning on building two particle accelerators that will make Beijing the "collider capital of the world" and leave CERN in the dust.

Working with international collaborators, scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) plan to construct a "Higgs factory" within 14 years. An underground ring 52 kilometers long will course beneath the capital, smashing together electronic and positrons with much greater precision than in CERN's pitifully small 27 kilometer-long tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border.

Physicists say that the proposed USD3 billion machine is well within technological grasp and is "conservative" in scope and cost: China reportedly hopes to turn the same tunnel into a next-generation super-proton collider by 2035.

Although funding for the project has not yet been agreed upon, many believe the political climate is ripe for the country to ascend to global "collider dominance."