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
Officials say they’re on board with standing up the atom smasher, but caution the plan hasn’t been formally approved.
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
Or, if physicists are lucky, the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, will blast some new particle into plain view when it comes back online next spring after 3 years of upgrades.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2021
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
