CERN has evolved over the decades, building generation after generation of more powerful accelerators. The predecessor to LHC was called LEP: https://en.wikipe

CERN has evolved over the decades, building generation after generation of more powerful accelerators. The predecessor to LHC was called LEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positron_Collider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positro... Yes, the LHC has done its job, more or less. Of course there is more utility to be squeezed out of it. But it is also time to consider the next generation.