atom smasher
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David Sheppard and Avante Brown were canvassing residents for a solar company recently when they stumbled onto the atom smasher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
In such a universe, a black hole appearing inside an atom smasher becomes much more feasible, potentially revealing insights into the very nature of gravity.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023
If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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