atom smasher
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The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 10, 2024
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
Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
